Mark Lilla is a professor of the humanities at Columbia University and the author of a new book called Ignorance and Bliss: On Wanting Not to Know. It’s short, elegantly written, and maybe the ...

Somewhere in a cinematic landscape that includes Yorgos Lanthimos and Lucile Hadžihalilović lies Helena Ganjalyan and Bartosz Szpak’s “Glorious Summer,” a sun-soaked allegory filled with dread in ...

“Ignorance and Bliss” goes on to demonstrate that there ... Perhaps the most gripping part of his book consists of a bold and startling reading of the works of Paul the Apostle, whom Lilla ...

Erroneous thinking among the young may produce an "ignorance is bliss" effect by reducing the apparent need to elect more women to office and raising levels of trust in government. In contrast, more ...

Is ignorance bliss? Is it better to be uninformed if the ... facts can help Henry Marsh is a neurosurgeon and author of the book, Do No Harm. Throughout his career he has been faced with deciding ...