Topics in ~humanities - Tildes

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Marxism, Buddhism and socialism
(3598 words)
- religion
- buddhism
- marxism
- socialism
- long read
6 comments

culturematters.org.uk

August 11

8 votes
The anti-medical dogma of Christian Science led my father to an agonising death. Now the church itself is in decline – and it can’t happen fast enough.
(4552 words)
0 comments

theguardian.com

August 6

9 votes
Tainted by association: Would you carve a roast with a knife that had been used in a murder? Why not? And what does this tell us about ethics?
(3287 words, Jul 22 2019)
7 comments

aeon.co

July 28

17 votes
Marxism and Buddhism: Life is suffering, whether you sit under a Bodhi Tree or stand with the workers. But do the two schools agree on the remedy?
(3223 words, Jul 17 2019)
- marxism
- religion
- buddhism
- capitalism
- suffering
- essay
- long read
11 comments

aeon.co

July 25

12 votes
The Impossible Dream - How have we come to build a whole culture around a futile, self-defeating enterprise: the pursuit of happiness?
(3388 words)
- philosophy
- history
- culture
- long read
0 comments

laphamsquarterly.org

July 6

10 votes
A Fundamentalist Community Forges a New Identity: Hildale and Colorado City, born of fundamentalist LDS doctrine, are rebuilding themselves—but not without holding on to their core beliefs
0 comments

theringer.com

June 24

8 votes
Muslims of early America: Muslims came to America more than a century before Protestants, and in great numbers. How was their history forgotten?
(4402 words)
- usa
- religion
- history
- muslims
- islam
- long read
5 comments

aeon.co

May 22

14 votes
Abolish the Priesthood: To save the Church, Catholics must detach themselves from the clerical hierarchy—and take the faith back into their own hands.
(8092 words)
25 comments

theatlantic.com

May 17

10 votes
Mankind, Unite!
(4438 words)
- history
- usa.ca
- upton sinclair
- edward bellamy
- great depression
- arthur l bell
- cults
- long read
- socialism
- communism
0 comments

laphamsquarterly.org

May 14

6 votes
Learning My Father’s Language: I made a vow to teach myself Irish, the language my mother struggled to learn, so that my daughters may learn it too.
(4495 words)
- ireland
- culture
- long read
- language
- irish
0 comments

theatlantic.com

April 30

6 votes
Indigenous educators fight for an accurate history of California
(4894 words)
0 comments

hcn.org

April 30

7 votes
The Spoil of Mariners
(3459 words)
- history
- history.maritime
- scurvy
- the arctic
- whaling
- long read
0 comments

laphamsquarterly.org

April 24

6 votes
The Neanderthal renaissance
(4344 words)
0 comments

aeon.co

March 14

6 votes
Are we on the road to civilization collapse?
(2389 words)
- history
- bbc
- civilization
- long read
26 comments

bbc.com

February 19

32 votes
The Philosopher Redefining Equality
(8340 words)
- philosophy
- pragmatism
- pluralism
- economics
- neoliberalism
- politics
- freedom
- equality
- democracy
- egalitarianism
- elizabeth anderson
- long read
3 comments

newyorker.com

February 4

9 votes
Socrates versus Roger Stone
- philosophy
- socrates
- politics
- history
- disinformation
- corruption
- authoritarianism
- tyranny
- stoicism
- long read
13 comments

donaldrobertson.name

January 27

9 votes
The Pyramids of Giza - Chapter 1: The Charlatan and the Gossip
(4598 words, Jan 11 2019)
- history
- egypt
- pyramids
- long read
1 comment

analog-antiquarian.net

January 15

4 votes
The Confederacy was built on slavery. How can so many southern whites still believe otherwise?
(7325 words, Nov 28 2018)
- long read
- history
- usa
- slavery
5 comments

washingtonpost.com

December 5, 2018

20 votes
American Exorcism
(5730 words)
1 comment

theatlantic.com

November 22, 2018

4 votes
Pope vs. Pope: How Francis and Benedict’s Simmering Conflict Could Split the Catholic Church
(5367 words)
0 comments

vanityfair.com

November 9, 2018

14 votes
The Myth of Whiteness in Classical Sculpture
(6012 words)
- history
- art.sculpture
- polychromy
- greece
- rome
- long read
1 comment

newyorker.com

October 30, 2018

8 votes
The Myth of Whiteness in Classical Sculpture - Greek and Roman statues were often painted, but assumptions about race and aesthetics have suppressed this truth
(6012 words)
- history
- art.sculpture
- polychromy
- greece
- rome
- long read
3 comments

newyorker.com

October 23, 2018

16 votes
About time: why western philosophy can only teach us so much
(Sep 25 2018)
0 comments

theguardian.com

October 20, 2018

6 votes
To Heil, or Not to Heil, When Traveling in the Third Reich
(4343 words)
1 comment

longreads.com

October 10, 2018

6 votes
Eichmann in Jerusalem—I
0 comments

newyorker.com

September 22, 2018

7 votes
The Mystery of People Who Speak Dozens of Languages
(6243 words)
1 comment

newyorker.com

August 30, 2018

15 votes
Language at the End of the World
2 comments

cabinetmagazine.org

July 24, 2018

11 votes