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, ...

My friend Lisa* was complaining about a person who reports to her at work. “Like so many people,” Lisa said, “she thinks that she’s impressing me when she says she knows what she’s doing, even if she ...

Every generation thinks the "kids these days" are hopeless little weaklings, but today's kids really do seem to be built different. Growing up in a world where the internet has never not existed seems ...

NPR's Asma Khalid speaks with author Mark Lilla about his new book, "Ignorance and Bliss: On Wanting Not to Know." I've got a question for you all. Is ignorance actually bliss? Well, we're going to ...

President Donald Trump said he would look at the case of Jeffrey Epstein’s accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell—while acting like he barely knew her. The Supreme Court declined to hear the appeal of the ...

Opponents of President Donald Trump's administration are set to rally in hundreds of cities on Saturday during the military parade in Washington to mark the Army's 250th anniversary, which coincides ...

A woman says her mother-in-law went behind her back to confirm the sex of her child Getty A woman who opted not to learn the sex of her baby before the birth found out anyway, after her mother-in-law ...

Ignorance is bliss—at least, that's how the saying goes. There's a long-standing debate about whether knowing the full truth about something always serves us better than not knowing it. From medical ...

Mr. Lilla is a professor of humanities at Columbia University and the author of the forthcoming book “Ignorance and Bliss: On Wanting Not to Know,” from which this essay is adapted. Aristotle taught ...

This article originally appeared on PolitiFact. President Donald Trump outraged many of his supporters after the Justice Department published an unsigned memo saying it would not release any more ...