History Isn’t Made by Great Men
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.
Read MoreA Pragmatic Approach to Ideas
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.
Read MoreWhether we are religious or claim no sense of the spiritual, sacred spaces help us to better confront the transient nature of existence.
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreAmerican politics is in peril. Now is the time to replace our broken bargaining tables with more deliberative democracy.
Read MoreA “skeptic” and a “believer,” two friends debate over whether there are laws in nature. Do supposed regularities qualify as laws?
Read MoreIf the universe is conducive to sentience rather than consciousness, then a scientific model for some even more fascinating phenomena emerges.
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