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08, 2017
Penelope’s Choice
By: Michael Grenke The Odyssey’s Penelope is a Thinker, a person who is effective in facing her world and its
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08, 2017
Trump’s Banality of Evil
By: Jared Marcel Pollen What does fascism smell like? It’s a question the late Christopher Hitchens used to ask, and
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07, 2017
All Generalizations are False. Including this One
By: Anurup Doshi Racial profiling techniques have been at the heart of debates about crime-fighting for a very long time.
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06, 2017
Two Proposals to Foster Autonomy, Renew Democracy and Exit Post-Truth Politics
By: Marco Senatore In a world where money is the only universal means of exchange, how different would society be
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06, 2017
Isolationism – Playing the Devil’s Advocate
Can diverse philosophical ideas develop in a single global society? Or must we have separate, "culturally isolated," societies that cross-fertilise each other?
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05, 2017
Memory and History
Remembrance can never be settled once and for all. The needs of a society change over time, and remembrance evolves to accommodate these needs.
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05, 2017
New Jacobins
By: Jared Marcel Pollen TO MY FELLOW-CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: I put the following work under your
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03, 2017
A People’s Buddhism?
America can learn much from B.R. Ambedkar’s liberation theology. But it first must get beyond bourgeois dismissals of the Dalit leader’s revolutionary dharma.
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02, 2017
Rethinking the Goals of Finance, Cont’d
Some Letters to the Editor The article Rethinking the Goals of Finance: Lessons from the Amherst Arbitrage proved controversial. Below
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01, 2017
The Pledge of Allegiance: A Reading
What does it mean to say the Pledge of Allegiance? In this time of national tension, when the President of the United States has pronounced his inauguration day a “National Day of Patriotic Devotion,” and declared that “from this day forward it’s going to be only America first,” it might be helpful to remind ourselves just what we devote ourselves to whenever we say the Pledge.