The Germans, 1933-45 by Milton Mayer, an excerpt.

A psychiatrist used religion to ply patients for sex, and the state let him quietly retire. By Johnny Edwards.

Anger is the emotion that has come to saturate our politics and culture. Philosophy can help us out of this dark vortex. By Martha C Nussbaum.

Secrecy, mistrust and the shadow of interrogation at the American prison limited doctors’ ability to treat mental illness among detainees. By Sheri Fink.

The country's controversial Mendoza Zoo is told it must transfer a chimpanzee named Cecilia to a primate sanctuary.

A man is hiking in the countryside when he suddenly sees a toddler about to fall into an abandoned well. What will he do? Many people will instinctively run toward the toddler to save him. However, some people will simply panic, freezing in the moment of crisis. A handful of people might start to move toward the child, but then stop, because they realise that the crumbling old well could collapse under their weight. Their initial impulse to save the child competes with their desire for self-preservation.

Kierkegaard is widely considered the most important religious thinker of the modern age. This is because he dramatized with special intensity the conflict between religion and secular reason, between private faith and the public world, and he went so far as to entertain the thought that a genuine reconciliation between them is impossible. By Peter E. Gordon.

Animal welfare campaigners have decried incidents of monkeys dying from strangulation, water deprivation, poor handling by staff and attempted escapes. By Oliver Milman.

If you want others to follow, learn to be alone with your thoughts. By William Deresiewicz.

Breakthrough raises call for debate over prospect of artificial human eggs. By David Cyranoski.(Oct. 17, 2016)

Vinciane Despret blends science with story to give readers new ways to think about animals and our relationships with them. By Catherine Ramsdell. (Aug. 2016)

Anthropomorphic thinking is now mainstream science — but not all researchers are happy about that. By Brandon Keim. (Oct. 2, 2016)

‘To each according to his threat advantage does not count as a principle of justice.’ John Rawls, A Theory of Justice, 1971.

Can the woolly mammoth be brought back from the dead? Scientists say it's only a matter of time. By Julie Cohen. (Aug. 25, 2016)

Exposing the cult ritual of voting in America. By Dan Sanchez. (Oct. 11, 2016)

Last February [six years ago], when a 12,000-pound orca named Tilikum dragged his SeaWorld trainer into the pool and drowned her, it was the third time the big killer whale had been involved in a death... By Tim Zimmermann (July 30, 2010)

Francesco Paciocco

In Russia's Arctic north, a new kind of gold rush is under way. By Amos Chapple.

We can implant false memories with increasing ease – and it may well help you to live a healthier, happier life. But what are the ethics? By Robert Nash.

The calls for a “moral economy” should not be dismissed as idealism.