Ignorance may sometimes be bliss, but in general it gets a bad rap — which is why the latest book from Peter Burke comes as a surprise. Over the years, this distinguished scholar has concentrated on ...

Knowledge can be a source of power and pleasure, but it also can be unsettling, humiliating, even terrifying. In “Ignorance and Bliss,” Mark Lilla, a professor of humanities at Columbia University, ...

I've long warned about the dangers of voter ignorance. But the Trump era and the current election reveal that, on one crucial point, I was actually too optimistic. I've never been a big believer in ...

Widespread political ignorance is a serious problem that both major-party presidential candidates are trying to exploit. A recent survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation finds extensive ignorance on ...

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. – Confucius (riffing on Socrates) Sometimes I don't open my fortune cookie. - Hoca Camide Deliberate ignorance Would you, now, like to know the ...

Ayisha Elliot. Photo by Todd Cooper. Language is heavily symbolic. It is not only words, but facial and bodily expressions, energy, boundaries and silences. The meanings are contextual, cultural and ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. Burke lists 500 polymaths from the past six centuries (with a scattering of true Renaissance-model ...

The 'Outnumbered' panel discusses concerns that students don't know essential U.S. history and the importance of ...