What Was the Silk Road? Trade, Ideas, and the Connected Premodern World
The Silk Road was not a single road but a network of routes connecting East Asia to Europe for over a millennium.
September 2025
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What Is Buddhism? The Dharma, Its History, and the Question of Suffering
A comprehensive introduction to Buddhism: the life of the Buddha, the Four Noble Truths, the Eightfold Path, major schools (Theravada, Mahayana,...
February 2024
What Is the Self: Philosophy, Neuroscience, and the Illusion of Identity
What is the self? Explore Hume, Parfit, Metzinger, and neuroscience on personal identity, the default mode network, and the narrative construction...