British troops fire on Minute Men at the Battle of Lexington. Source: Library of Congress. On the day that John Kaag, a philosophy professor at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, moved into his ...

In John Kaag’s recent book, “American Bloods: The Untamed Dynasty That Shaped a Nation,” the author traces the evolution of the American character through the members of one family. This is Kaag’s ...

Professor John Kaag (Philosophy) recently featured in Boston Globe's Bibliophiles Column in advance of his Sept. 9 online event at the American Ancestors Society.

Imagine having a conversation with holistic medicine guru Deepak Chopra on Buddhism. Or with writer and culture critic Roxane Gay on Edith Wharton’s “The Age of Innocence.” “Rebind scales up ...