Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Edward Segal covers crisis-related news, topics, and issues. The imagination can be an important tool for preparing for a ...

“Use your imagination.” You’ve probably heard this phrase since before you can remember. It was your imagination you were using to create your first finger painting; your imagination that let you ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American The past decade has seen an explosion of ...

Anyone who has bought a house, started a business, purchased a stock, or spent a few dollars on a lottery ticket has fantasized about how their future might change based on those decisions. Each of ...

“The most important failure was one of imagination… It is therefore crucial to find a way of routinizing, even bureaucratizing, the exercise of imagination.” – The 9/11 Commission Report, Chapter 11 ...

In the face of what can only be described as a “polycrisis,” where climate change, war, poverty, and disease converge to overwhelm us, the need for creative solutions has never been more pressing. In ...

An excerpt from Discipling the Diseased Imagination: Spiritual Formation and the Healing of Our Hearts. I have always loved stories about dragons. Much of my fascination owes to the works of J. R. R.

When Catholic writers, artists, scholars, critics and philosophers refer to the Catholic imagination, what do they mean? Dana Gioia is a poet and former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts ...

This piece is crossposted from The Best American Poetry, where poet Eve Grubin is guest blogging this week. Read Grubin’s previous post here and her poetry on The Arty Semite here. Yesterday I wrote ...