“How dumb are we?” asked an episode of Oprah in 1988. Part of the show’s offering: a debate between Gerald Graff and Allan Bloom
Read the full article which is published on Arts and Letters Daily (external link)Foucault’s critique of power and knowledge shaped poststructuralism, yet its rejection of truth risks becoming its own orthodoxy. To remain...
This is Part 4 of a 4-part series on the academic, and specifically philosophical study of disagreement. In Part 1...
This is Part 3 of a 4-part series on the academic, and specifically philosophical study of disagreement. In Part 1...
This is Part 2 of a 4-part series on the academic, and specifically philosophical study of disagreement. In Part 1...
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Seamus Heaney rarely struck a note of inspired weirdness. Then again, he was never as boring as some canonical poets
“How dumb are we?” asked an episode of Oprah in 1988. Part of the show’s offering: a debate between Gerald...
philosophybits: “It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power...
