How The Light Gets In
WHAT SHOULD YOU WORRY ABOUT AND HOPE FOR IN 2018? My fears for 2018 are too widely shared to bear repeating,[…]
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Condemned by the good life
Why philosophers make two mistakes when prescribing the good life.
ReadBack to basics
In the Balkanised age of the internet, bands that most people have never heard of can fill arenas, and TV series on platforms most people don’t use can have audiences of millions. Jordan Peterson, a clinical psychologist and professor at the University of Toronto, shows that intellectuals can play that game too. His YouTube lectures — with titles such as “Identity politics and the Marxist lie of white privilege” — have been viewed hundreds of thousands of times.
ReadMonuments should spark reflection, not genuflection
History is not only written by the winners, it’s carved and cast in their image, too. That’s why cold, hard lumps of stone and bronze have a remarkable capacity to fire the passions. Campaigns to erect statues or tear them down are part of a wider cultural conflict, as the latest skirmish clearly demonstrates.
ReadThe problem with self-help
Philosophy is not “self-help” in the contemporary sense.
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