Philosophers Smear One of Their Own for Gender Heresy
Why do philosophers so often uncritically support the conventional views of the time and place in which they find themselves?
Nathan Cofnas
· 7 min read
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The Wisdom of a Slave: A Defence of Stoicism
Stoicism avoids such unwelcome consequences.
Andrew David Irvine
· 10 min read
Ray Russell's Incubus: A Lost Gem from America's Twentieth Decade
Hard as it might be to believe, the years that stretched from roughly 1967 through the bicentennial year of 1976 brought even more foment, outrage, unrest, and upheaval to America than the most recent decade has managed. The escalation of the Vietnam War, the student protests against that war, the
Kevin Mims
· 15 min read
Social-Media Oligopolists Are the New Railroad Barons. It's Time for Washington to Treat Them Accordingly
In American First-Amendment jurisprudence, Brandenburg’s name is now a byword for the test that is used in assessing the validity of laws against inflammatory speech—especially speech that can lead to the sort of hateful mob activity that played out at the US Capitol last Wednesday.
Quillette
· 11 min read
Songs from Orwell's Glass Asylum
Bowie’s album beautifully captures the essential romance in the story.
David Cohen
· 10 min read
To Expower the People
Expowering is a transitional measure since you cannot fire your way to equity.
Theodore Gioia
· 12 min read
Tennessee Williams and Woody Allen: Kindred Spirits to Illuminate our Tragicomic Existence
Allen and Williams are united by a sensibility that can be described as tragicomic, even if each inflects it differently.
Paul Hawkins
· 8 min read
The Death of Political Cartooning—And Why It Matters
Many nominally democratic political regimes practice de facto censorship in regard to material criticizing their populist rulers.
Jack Reilly
· 12 min read
A Misremembered Day of Infamy
Brian Stewart
· 10 min read
Return of the Strong Gods: Understanding the New Right
A great many Americans held their noses to vote for Trump, whom they saw as the lesser evil.
Jordan Alexander Hill
· 20 min read
The Sexual Politics of Vasectomies
Vasectomies were illegal in France up until 2001. A Napoleonic code which forbade self mutilation was applied to vasectomies used for contraception.
Tanveer Ahmed
· 6 min read
An Optimistic Outlook on 2021
The events of 2020 have caused precisely these sorts of setbacks in global collective human progress.
Tony Morley
· 7 min read
National Borders are Not Going Away
The only examples of ready mergers in humans bring to mind the captive chimps or fugitive monkeys.
Mark W. Moffett
· 6 min read
The Future Is Already Here
One can still sell people smartwatches, and create “new needs” for people who have already established lives of comfort.
Joshua Schwartz
· 10 min read
Higher Education Risks No Longer Being Worth It – Here’s How to Change Course
The fact that higher education is suffering from the pandemic is not surprising—every sector has been affected one way or another.
Christos A. Makridis
· 6 min read