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Virginia Woolf envisioned female intellectuals with the time and space to write. Hers was an enduring vision — but also a lonely one
Virginia Woolf envisioned female intellectuals with the time and space to write. Hers was an enduring vision — but also...
A question for astrobiologists: If space dolphins or celestial jellyfishes live somewhere beyond Alpha Centauri, great — but then what?
A question for astrobiologists: If space dolphins or celestial jellyfishes live somewhere beyond Alpha Centauri, great — but then what?
Robert Trivers, who died this week, “could be hilarious, infuriating, inappropriate, jocund, tactless, volatile, sometimes aggressive”
Robert Trivers, who died this week, “could be hilarious, infuriating, inappropriate, jocund, tactless, volatile, sometimes aggressive”
“There is in all manual work and all work performed to order, that’s to say in all real labour,…”
“There is in all manual work and all work performed to order, that’s to say in all real labour, an...
“King of the who?”: Monty Python on Rousseauian Legitimacy
Selections from Rousseau’s Social Contract are a staple in my introductory “Citizens and their Cities” class. We read most of Bk. I,...
Understanding Evil, Jaime Denison
In summer 2025, I was approached by the director of the Central New Mexico (CNM) Honors Program to teach the...
philosophybits: “Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I…
philosophybits: “Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up...
What began as a magazine in search of answers became an activist organ certain it possessed them all. Marco Roth on how n+1 lost its way
What began as a magazine in search of answers became an activist organ certain it possessed them all. Marco Roth...