Karl Marx famously said, "Religion is the opium of the people." But what did he mean by this?

His father was a Jew who left the Jewish religion and turned to Christianity in 1824 when young Marx was six years old. Karl Marx was a confessed Christian. Karl Marx was heavily influenced by Moses ...

The document, recalled his untutored protégé, “brought me an interpretation of much that before had been only inarticulate ...

We will bury you” is still their goal, and Marx and his followers made it plain how they intended to do it. They want to ...

In their scepticism and uncompromising honesty, they remain among the most modern of India’s ancient thinkers.

Delhi University's Executive Council has approved major syllabus changes and new programmes, sparking faculty protest over ...

I recall a conversation with a UPND-supporting taxi driver in Lusaka who proudly said, “President Hichilema has taught Zambians to work hard.” He’s not alone—this line has become the slogan of UPND ...

I was in my early teens when I came across the slim novel, Weep Not, Child, by the then James Ngugi. Actually, the novel laid ...

Famous Greek ancient philosophers Plato and Aristotle walked with their students around the temples of knowledge to think ...

Shmuel Feiner argues that it would seem logical that the Haskalah movement encouraged rather than discouraged women from ...

The Bible skeptic Michael, whom we have been engaged with for many weeks, asks a very important question: “Isn’t all religion ...