Can Art Save Us?
June 1, 2025
The world is facing an unprecedented environmental crisis, and we urgently need good ways to…
Art Tagged Episodes
In Search of Proust’s Philosophy
March 30, 2025
Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time challenges us to think hard about what we…
Your Brain on Literature
November 12, 2023
Cognitive science has revolutionized our understanding of the brain and how it functions. Researchers have…
The Arts For All?
July 16, 2023
When we think of “real” art, we often think of expensive, highbrow pieces that are…
Walter Benjamin and the Re-Enchanted World
July 17, 2022
Walter Benjamin was a German Jewish critical theorist, essayist, and philosopher who died tragically during…
Are We Alone?
December 6, 2020
News that life might exist or have existed on Mars or somewhere else in our…
Poetry as a Way of Knowing
April 19, 2020
What is poetry? Mere word play? A pretty, or at any rate striking, way of…
The Mystery of Music
March 24, 2019
Most of us listen to music on a regular basis, but we don’t think much…
Philosophy of Sleep
March 17, 2019
“Blessed are the sleepy ones,” writes Nietzsche, “for they shall soon drop off.” Sleep is…
The 2019 Dionysus Awards
February 17, 2019
What movies of the past year challenged our assumptions and made us think about things…
Remixing Reality – Art and Literature for the 21st Century
April 16, 2017
For decades, literary critics have been questioning the relevance of the novel as a literary…
Art and Obscenity
March 12, 2017
What do Marcel Duchamp, Damien Hirst, and Andres Serrano have in common? They’ve all created…
Life as a Work of Art
June 5, 2016
We know what it means for a painting to be beautiful. But what about a…
Are Some People Better Than Others?
August 23, 2015
Egalitarian principles play an important role in our moral and political discourse. Yet there’s no…
The Copyright Wars
March 22, 2009
Today there is an entire generation of people who have never paid for music. From…
The Philosophy of Hoops
November 4, 2007
Basketball, an American invention but a world-wide phenomenon, is sometimes characterized as the most athletic…
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