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Philosophy
June 28, 2014
Lynn Hunt
Louis XVI Wasn't Killed by Ideas
This is what happens when you ignore the role of politics in intellectual history
June 22, 2014
Daniel Campos
Towards an Ethic of World Cup Fandom
A philosopher in Brazil ruminates on how to be a good fan
March 21, 2014
Jason Zengerle
The Failure of Kentucky Coach John Calipari's "Players First" Philosophy
March 18, 2014
Alice Robb
Your Self Is Located in Your Chest, Says New Study
March 14, 2014
Geoffrey Gray
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Is Still Missing. You Secretly Hope It Stays That Way.
February 14, 2014
Ryan Kearney
Death to Cupid
Love is not "all you need." Far from it.
November 22, 2013
Matthew Parris
What Makes Us Human? Doing Pointless Things for Fun
November 22, 2013
Ian Steadman
Viral video philosopher Jason Silva: "We're going to cure aging"
October 24, 2013
Nora Caplan-Bricker
Senator Outraged that National Endowment for the Humanities Funds Study of Humanities
Also, it studies Islam
October 9, 2013
Denis Donoghue
"If You Read Derrida for the Plot, You Would Shoot Yourself"
April 16, 1977
September 27, 2013
Steven Pinker, Leon Wieseltier
Science vs. the Humanities, Round III
August 28, 2013
George Santayana
From the Stacks: "Goethe and German Egotism"
January 2, 1915
August 7, 2013
Steven Pinker
Science Is Not Your Enemy
An impassioned plea to neglected novelists, embattled professors, and tenure-less historians
August 1, 2013
Lewis Mumford
From the Stacks: “The Significance of Herman Melville”
October 10, 1928
July 25, 2013
Kenneth Burke
From the Stacks: “Why Coleridge?”
September 13, 1939
July 19, 2013
Adam Kirsch
Against Cynicism
A philosopher's brilliant reasons for living
March 8, 2013
Leon Wieseltier
A Darwinist Mob Goes After a Serious Philosopher
February 23, 2013
Cass R. Sunstein
Should Striving Ever Stop?
When the best thing to do is to settle for good enough
February 18, 2013
Charles Fried
Remembering Ronald Dworkin
January 3, 2013
Victoria Beale
How to Be a Pseudo-Intellectual

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