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Infused with humour and nostalgia, a one-man show confronts the communal trauma of his parish in working-class Philadelphia ...

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We all know the feeling: you’re trying to focus, relax or simply enjoy a quiet moment, but your mind has other plans. It wanders, replaying worries, rehearsing anxieties or drifting into a spiral of ...

Fear has typically been understood as a forward-looking emotion. In his Rhetoric, Aristotle defined it as that negative feeling (‘a disturbance’) that is due to ‘a mental picture of some destructive ...

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Hope is indispensable. But when false hope blinds us to reality, a short bout of despair might be the antidote we need Our species has a remarkable ability to imagine the future. Though birds, bees, ...

Huston Smith (1919-2016) was one of the preeminent US scholars of religion and comparative philosophy during the 20th century. His distinguished career, which included serving as professor of ...