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Can We Deduce Our Way to Salvation?
Think Least of Death: Spinoza on How to Live and How to DieSteven NadlerPrinceton University Press, $27.95 (cloth)Socrates says in Plato’s Gorgias that there’s nothing more serious than “the question...
View ArticleA More Perfect Meritocracy
The Cult of Smart: How Our Broken Education System Perpetuates Social Injustice Fredrik deBoerAll Points Books, $28.99 (cloth)The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good? Michael...
View ArticleOur Machiavellian Moment
Machiavelli: The Art of Teaching the People What to Fear Patrick Boucheron, translated by Willard WoodOther Press, $14.99 (paper)
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Whiteness Is the Greatest Racial Fraud
What is racial fraud and how is it possible? The answer would be clear enough, perhaps, if race were a biological reality. But the consensus seems to be that race is a social construction, a product of...
View ArticleWhy Black Marxism, Why Now?
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View ArticleRawls at 100
The American political philosopher John Rawls was born in 1921 and published A Theory of Justice in 1971. In celebration of these 100th and 50th anniversaries, we provide this reading list of great...
View ArticleThe Value of Truth
In the jargon of academia, the study of what we can know, and how we can know it, is called “epistemology.” During the 1980s, philosopher Richard Rorty declared it dead and bid it good riddance. To...
View ArticleIs There a Right to Heresy?
On October 2, 2020, French President Emmanuel Macron gave a speech warning of the rising threat of “Islamist separatism.” This radical political project, Macron contended, is testing the resilience of...
View ArticleThe Quest to Tell Science from Pseudoscience
Where do you place the boundary between “science” and “pseudoscience”? The question is more than academic. The answers we give have consequences—in part because, as health policy scholar Timothy...
View ArticleWhy Democracy Needs Privacy
Imagine having a master key for your life. Would you go around making copies of it and giving them out to strangers? Probably not. So why are you willing to give up your personal data to pretty much...
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Polarization or Propaganda?
I would like to stage a fight between two different accounts of the current political landscape—what’s been called the “post-truth” era, the infodemic, the end of democracy, or perhaps most accurately,...
View ArticleThe World of Edward Said
Places of Mind: A Life of Edward SaidTimothy BrennanFarrar, Straus and Giroux, $35 (cloth)
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We Don't Know, But Let's Try It
Albert O. HirschmanAlbert O. Hirschman: An Intellectual Biography Michele AlacevichColumbia University Press, $35 (cloth)
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Against Persuasion
A remix of “Alcibiades Being Taught by Socrates,” François-André Vincent (1776). Image: Wikimedia
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