Over the years, the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program has grown beyond its name. From our roots as the Anti-Graffiti Network and then as community mural makers, the scope of our work has ...

Benjamin Franklin's entrepreneurial spirit fueled American innovation during his time and can still be felt today. In The Society for Useful Knowledge author Jonathan Lyons talk about how Franklin ...

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It’s fitting that Benjamin Franklin’s name is in the subtitle of this book rather than the title. Those looking for the life story of one of the more colorful of the Founding Fathers had best go to ...

A climate of “anti-intellectualism”, faltering levels of trust in “experts” and an era of “post-truth” provides a rather dreary depiction of the state of academia today. Compound this with the ...

Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world In the long run, as the Nobel laureate Paul Krugman has written, productivity is almost everything. But what drives ...

CAROL WILCOX argues for the proper implementation of the land value tax, which could see unused plots sold off and landlords priced out of landlordism, potentially resolving the housing and planning ...

Chloé Déchery and Chris Eley have created in Useful Knowledge to Know a piece of theatre that is enigmatic, annoying, technically fluid, self-indulgent and ultimately, charming. Déchery delivers a ...