Adorno and the Culture Industry
September 10, 2023
What’s your favorite movie? Did you watch that season finale last night? No spoilers! Popular…
Liberty and Justice for Who?
October 11, 2026
Many democracies are founded on the ideals of 18th- and 19th-Century British Liberalism: the idea that human beings deserve the right to self-government because we are born free, equal, and capable of rationality. Yet Liberalism was used to justify colonialism, which deprived people around the…
Summer Reading List 2023
September 3, 2023
What books should thoughtful people read this summer? Josh and Ray talk to the authors…
Hegel
August 27, 2023
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel is without doubt one of the most influential philosophers of all…
What Has Replaced Freud?
August 6, 2023
Although the concept that we can have thoughts and desires hidden from consciousness can be…
The 2023 Dionysus Awards
July 30, 2023
What movies of the past year challenged your assumptions and made you think about things…
The Arts For All?
July 16, 2023
When we think of “real” art, we often think of expensive, highbrow pieces that are…
The Rhetoric of Big Tech
June 11, 2023
Big tech is known for its “disruption” of established industries and changing fundamental aspects of…
Minds and Matter
June 4, 2023
Everything that seems to have a mind also has a body made of flesh and blood. But…
Are We All to Blame?
May 14, 2023
It’s easy to identify the pressing issues facing our world today, but it’s much more…
Kierkegaard
May 7, 2023
Philosophy usually suggests a striving for rationality and objectivity. But the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard…
Why We Hate
April 23, 2023
The Southern Poverty Law Center reports that the number of hate groups operating in the…
What’s In a Game?
April 9, 2023
Games have been an integral part of human society since the earliest civilizations. They are…
Why Poetry Matters
April 2, 2023
Some people say they find poetry impenetrable. Yet readership is increasing: in a 2017 survey,…
Science and Skepticism
March 19, 2023
In recent decades, we’ve witnessed intense cultural wars waged on scientifically established phenomena, such as…
Montaigne and the Art of the Essay
February 26, 2023
French thinker Michel de Montaigne invented a whole new genre in which to do philosophy:…
The Philosophical Legacy of Darwin
February 12, 2023
More than a century and a half after On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin’s…
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