I now think a heretical form of Christianity might be true
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Sociology’s race problem: Urban ethnographers do more harm than good in speaking for Black communities. They see only suffering, not diversity or joy.
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A 17th-century classic of Ethiopian philosophy might be a fake. Does it matter, or is that just how philosophy works?
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Two philosophy scholars discuss and advocate for secularism in Iran
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Since when is philosophy a branch of the self help industry?
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Settler colonialism is not just a historic evil but a modern-day one
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Ludwig Wittgenstein in the classroom - his thoughts about teaching the student who responds in unexpected ways
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Rome’s libraries were shrines to knowledge – and imperial power
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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
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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?
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When hope is a hindrance
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The American Aristotle
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Don’t farm bugs
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Scientists and economists sold Karl Popper’s ‘falsification’ idea to the world. They have much to answer for
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A theory of creepiness
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For Leo Strauss, public life was muddied by opinion and persecution, so philosophers should shield their work from view
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Bertrand Russell’s ‘scientific’ philosophy was a bulwark against nationalism
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Privacy is power
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Philosophy’s systemic racism
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How Camus and Sartre split up over the question of how to be free
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How compulsory unionization makes us more free
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Does philosophy reside in the unsayable or should it care only for precision? Carnap, Heidegger and the great divergence
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Nihilism
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Why religion is not going away and science will not destroy it
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How Mengzi came up with something better than the Golden Rule
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English is not normal: No, English isn’t uniquely vibrant or mighty or adaptable. But it really is weirder than pretty much every other language.
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The play deficit
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The hypersane are among us, if only we are prepared to look
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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?
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The first socialist
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If anyone can see the morally unthinkable online, what then?
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A revolution in time - Once local and irregular, time-keeping became universal and linear in 311 BCE
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The Neanderthal renaissance
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Gossip was a powerful tool for the powerless in Ancient Greece
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Xenophon: The ancient Greek rebel leader who saw Socrates solo-dancing
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Believing without evidence is always morally wrong
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A history of true civilisation is not one of monuments
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The say of the land. Is language produced by the mind? Romantic theory has it otherwise: words emerge from the cosmos, expressing its soul
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The big squeeze: Sicily’s mafia sprang from the growing global market for lemons – a tale with sour parallels for consumers today
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Speaking on behalf of … In the tapestry of diverse social groups, the loudest and most extreme get heard. To whom should we actually listen?
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Say goodbye to the information age: it’s all about reputation now
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Black Achilles - The Greeks didn’t have modern ideas of race. Did they see themselves as white, black – or as something else altogether?
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