Essential Reading
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War and Peace is rooted in Tolstoy’s longing for the infinite and universal. Yet, it reveals our need to focus on the concrete and mundane.
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Whether we are religious or claim no sense of the spiritual, sacred spaces help us to better confront the transient nature of existence.
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In defending liberalism, the philosopher Richard Rorty argues that there is no difference—in practice—between aiming at justification and aiming at something more called truth.
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American politics is in peril. Now is the time to replace our broken bargaining tables with more deliberative democracy.
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A “skeptic” and a “believer,” two friends debate over whether there are laws in nature. Do supposed regularities qualify as laws?
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If the universe is conducive to sentience rather than consciousness, then a scientific model for some even more fascinating phenomena emerges.
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With culture wars focusing more on the nature of truth, the time is ripe to consider the connection between pragmatism and existentialism.
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The most fortifying experiences in nature are often found in lonely, transitional zones. But what is the reality of these threshold places?