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February 15, 2016
How should we talk about college sports?
Inspiring someone is not the same as accomplishing something.
December 31, 2015
Won’t someone please think of the parents? Star Wars and the other victims of mass shootings.
What is it like to be a parent the day, the year, or the decade after your child murders at Columbine?
December 14, 2015
How did poetry reveal the limits of philosophy?
Despite its linguistic precision, despite its profound role in educating and motivating the imagination, poetry was the great blind spot of the twentieth-century philosophers.
November 17, 2015
Are we hypocrites (or bigots) if we care more about Paris than Beirut?
We are nationalists much more than we are patriots and that is a problem.
November 16, 2015
Yes, the attacks in Paris were about religion. Stop saying they weren’t.
The gun-toting Christian capitalism of Fox news is not the same as Martin Luther King’s pacifist Baptism. It’s just not.
November 9, 2015
Should we take Plato seriously? (Or, Should we be Attracted to our Professors?)
In Plato’s time, men taught boys with the hope that they would become sexual partners. Advanced education was intertwined with courtship.
October 12, 2015
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