Sexual Consent and the Social Contract
Steven Miller discusses the relationship between sexual and political consent.
Philosophy & Religion
"Never be afraid to sit awhile and think." — Lorraine Hansberry
Learning from Weirdos
Gayle Rogers reviews Jonathan P. Eburne's history of unorthodox ideas.
“Innumerable Intentions and Charms”: On Gary Browning’s “Why Iris Murdoch Matters”
Kieran Setiya considers “Why Iris Murdoch Matters” by Gary Browning.
Resurrecting the Soul in a Secular Age
Mark Edmundson has written a “book about ideals — and about their potential disappearance from the world.” Can he save them?
The Gifts of Humility
Costica Bradatan contemplates the blind cruelty of power and the gifts of humility.
The Sufferings of Nietzsche
Morten Høi Jensen contemplates the fruitful sufferings of Nietzsche, as chronicled in recent books by Sue Prideaux and John Kaag.
The Death of Humanitarianism
Brad Evans speaks with Mark Duffield, author of “Post-Humanitarianism.” A conversation in the “Histories of Violence” series.
A Return to God After God
Kevin Hart reviews two new books about Richard Kearney's work, "Richard Kearney’s Anatheistic Wager" and "The Art of Anatheism."
Facing the “Horror of Time”
"We need to realize that philosophy in the Islamic world has never been just one thing, any more than Islamic culture has been just one thing."
Roland Barthes and the Urgency of Nuance
Philip Sayers on the difficulty and importance of recovering Roland Barthes’s engagement of the neutral in our political moment.
A Muslim Founder of the Social Sciences?
In "Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography," Robert Irwin sets out to both demythologize and re-mystify the influential 14th-century philosopher.
Almost Too Sober: On the Appeal of Stoicism
Robert Zaretsky contemplates “How to Be Free: An Ancient Guide to the Stoic Life,” a selection of Epictetus’s thought translated by A. A. Long.
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