Education

A total of 370 out of 882 Indian laws criminalise 7,305 acts - from missed dog walks to murder.

In Plato’s Symposium, Socrates shared a theory of love from the teachings of a ‘non-Athenian woman’. Who was she really?

The IMD warns of significantly higher-than-usual heatwave days from April to June, which call for short- and long-term measures to protect people, particularly informal sector workers, from heat stress

What events happened on 25 April in history? We round up the events, births and deaths…

Therapy dogs aren’t for everyone.

Almost three months into the Trump administration’s war on universities, and a year and a half into the Republican Party’s organized campaign against the presidents of top colleges, it is clear that antisemitism and D.E.I. are mere pretexts for these attacks.

It’s dif­fi­cult to imag­ine that there was ever a time with­out the word “Kafkaesque.” Yet the term would have meant noth­ing at all to any­one alive at the same time as Franz Kaf­ka — includ­ing, in all prob­a­bil­i­ty, Kaf­ka him­self.

‘The human family’, Henry Drummond wrote in The Ascent of Man (1894), is ‘the starting-point and threshold of the true moral life’. Man carries ‘old wild blood in his veins’, while woman makes a home: her passivity is ‘the embryo of patience’.

Elon Musk has a simple diagnosis of what’s ailing America: It’s being destroyed by empathy.

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. In the summer of 2006, a nonfiction book called The Overachievers: The Secret Lives of Driven Kids cast an uncanny light on my late teenage years.