An archeological revolution transforms our image of human freedoms
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The gossip trap - How civilization came to be and how social media is ending it
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A Man of Parts and Learning - The story behind a portrait of a black intellectual from the 1700s
5 votes -
Dream logic: An essay on belief, superstition, and love
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History is in the making - It's technology and ideas, not politics, that change our lives the most. History should reflect that.
10 votes -
I now think a heretical form of Christianity might be true
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Daniel Dennett: 'Where Am I?'
6 votes -
Step by step: Thinking through and beyond the repair manual
6 votes -
Bureaucracy's playthings
5 votes -
The Anthropocene Explosion - Essay by Koert van Mensvoort (2014)
9 votes -
Two philosophy scholars discuss and advocate for secularism in Iran
8 votes -
Since when is philosophy a branch of the self help industry?
7 votes -
How to Build a Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later (1978)
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Why Silicon Valley is here. One radio engineer had a plan. And it worked.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein in the classroom - his thoughts about teaching the student who responds in unexpected ways
7 votes -
Rome’s libraries were shrines to knowledge – and imperial power
15 votes -
A July Fourth collection of essays related to the US Independence Day
7 votes -
Illustrations of madness: James Tilly Matthews and the Air Loom
9 votes -
The city that fell off a cliff
6 votes -
A shared celebration of Orthodox Christmas deep in the Arctic, undimmed by war and the round-the-clock polar night
6 votes -
Archaeology and genetics can’t yet agree on when humans first arrived in the Americas. That’s good science and here’s why.
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The polyglots of Dardistan - At the crossroads of south and central Asia lies one of the world’s most multilingual places, with songs and poetry to match
3 votes -
A Modest Proposal: For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the publick (1729)
17 votes -
Beside the point? Punctuation is dead, long live punctuation
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How do ancient stories of talking elephants and singing birds encourage a life of truth, nonviolence and compassion?
3 votes -
Analytic feminism
3 votes -
Rome: Decline and Fall? Part III: Things
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How civilizations fall: A theory of catabolic collapse
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Why you're christian
7 votes -
Rome: Decline and Fall? Part I: Words
6 votes -
What to do when the KKK shoots and other lessons from Houston’s underground paper
2 votes -
100 years of whatever this will be
12 votes -
Against the stoics, skeptics, epicureans, and buddhists
6 votes -
Tolerance by Accident, Trust by Design
3 votes -
Epistemology of the Internet — and of traditional media
6 votes -
When hope is a hindrance
6 votes -
The American Aristotle
2 votes -
Thoughts on Dean Spade's essay "Solidarity Not Charity - Mutual Aid for Mobilization and Survival"
5 votes -
The history of humiliation points to the future of human dignity
5 votes -
Don’t farm bugs
11 votes -
Screenshot, save, share, shame: Making sense of new media through screenshots and public shame by Frances Corry
4 votes -
Playful Participatory Culture: Learning from Reddit, by Adrienne Massanari
2 votes -
An essay on nothing
4 votes -
History as end: 1619, 1776, and the politics of the past
6 votes -
Scientists and economists sold Karl Popper’s ‘falsification’ idea to the world. They have much to answer for
7 votes -
The fact/opinion distinction
4 votes -
A theory of creepiness
4 votes -
Qualia
3 votes -
For Leo Strauss, public life was muddied by opinion and persecution, so philosophers should shield their work from view
4 votes -
Nothingness (Why is there something rather than nothing?)
7 votes