Charles Darwin is most famous for his idea of evolution. He said that species, including human beings, were part of ...

“Darwinism in full effect”: Sean Strickland’s reaction to the ICE agent's fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good ignites outrage (Image via Getty) Former UFC middleweight champion Sean Strickland ignited ...

Since the full scope of Nazi crimes was revealed, eugenics has fallen deeply out of fashion. Yet if the term has become taboo, some of the practices associated with it have not. Today we are ...

In Part One of this series, we saw that culture doesn't suffer from the problem that Darwin's theory of natural selection successfully solved: the problem of how change accumulates in biological ...

Abraham believed in the power of his connection to God and in its ability to bring about true transformation – far more powerfully than any punishment, no matter how justified. Abraham, our forefather ...

Yet modern biology has revealed that cells are preternaturally sophisticated assemblages — literally automated, miniaturized factories. How could the evidence have been overwhelming but now orthodoxy ...

Full disclosure: I’m writing this column from the city of Merida on the Yucatán peninsula of Mexico, a country where I spend a fair amount of time each year — a country, and a people, close to my ...

Private equity firm Apollo plans to take engine parts provider Barnes Aerospace private for $3.6 billion. The Oct. 7 deal comes seven months after Barnes settled with an activist hedge fund and agreed ...

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present and surface delightful treasures. Sign up here. Gray, a scholar and naturalist, ...

Damn you, Dick Darman! That un-Christian thought about a 1990’s presidential bureaucrat hit me on reading about new flooding in south Florida and warnings of 90 mph winds for several states the next ...