If War Can Have Ethics, Wall Street Can, Too The calls for a “moral economy” should not be dismissed as idealism. By NATHANIEL B. DAVIS
I’m Black. Does America Have a Plan for My Life? Terence Crutcher was pursuing his ambitions, until the state interfered by killing him. By CHRIS LEBRON
Why Do Anything? A Meditation on Procrastination The procrastinator is both contemplator and man of action, which is the worst thing to be. By COSTICA BRADATAN
Who Is ‘Evil,’ and Who Is the Victim? There are victims and there are perpetrators, but it can be dangerous to think only in these terms. By BRAD EVANS and SIMONA FORTI
Teaching Calvin in California Some think theology has no place in a secular classroom. I’ve learned otherwise. By JONATHAN SHEEHAN
A Life of Meaning (Reason Not Required) If philosophy is to stay relevant, it must bridge the gap between feeling and thought. By ROBERT A. BURTON
Why We Never Die My son is experiencing the same fears of death that I did as a child. What should I tell him? By GABRIEL ROCKHILL
My Parents’ Mixed Messages on the Holocaust My mother and father survived with two different views of the world. Which one is right? By JASON STANLEY
Love. Labor. Lost. Our cultural idealization of love could use a revision. By NATASHA LENNARD and MOIRA WEIGEL
Women Who Love Women Aren’t Tragic Times have changed. So why do so many queer narratives still end in death? By JO CHIANG
Against ‘Sustainability’ The truth is we “sustain” nature to preserve the resources needed for our own consumption. By JEREMY BUTMAN
What Protest Looks Like The internet and visual culture have changed how we express discontent, for better and worse. By NATASHA LENNARD and NICHOLAS MIRZOEFF
How Religion Can Lead to Violence The potential for intolerance lies in the logic of religions like Christianity and Islam that claim to be based on a divine revelation. By GARY GUTTING
Arendt, Schmitt and Trump’s Politics of ‘Nation’ The Republican convention evoked two titans of 20th-century political philosophy, Carl Schmitt and Hannah Arendt. By FEISAL G. MOHAMED
Why You Don’t Know Your Own Mind Experiments in cognitive science, neuroimaging and social psychology are overturning a trope of philosophy. By ALEX ROSENBERG
When Law Is Not Justice Rule of law may be good for business, but in many parts of the world it’s not enough to ensure basic rights. By BRAD EVANS and GAYATRI CHAKRAVORTY SPIVAK
Race, Truth and Our Two Realities The facts tell me that black lives don’t matter. How is it we can disagree? By CHRIS LEBRON
There Is No Scientific Method Why are the results of science considered more reliable than those from other forms of human inquiry, like poetry or philosophy? By JAMES BLACHOWICZ
How Should We Respond to ‘Evil’? The attempt to “destroy” evil is an ethical version of a fool’s errand. By STEVEN PAULIKAS
America’s New Normal The poet Czeslaw Milosz thought the lessons of Europe’s traumatic 20th century were lost on most Americans. By ROBERT ZARETSKY
If War Can Have Ethics, Wall Street Can, Too The calls for a “moral economy” should not be dismissed as idealism. By NATHANIEL B. DAVIS
I’m Black. Does America Have a Plan for My Life? Terence Crutcher was pursuing his ambitions, until the state interfered by killing him. By CHRIS LEBRON
Why Do Anything? A Meditation on Procrastination The procrastinator is both contemplator and man of action, which is the worst thing to be. By COSTICA BRADATAN
Who Is ‘Evil,’ and Who Is the Victim? There are victims and there are perpetrators, but it can be dangerous to think only in these terms. By BRAD EVANS and SIMONA FORTI
Teaching Calvin in California Some think theology has no place in a secular classroom. I’ve learned otherwise. By JONATHAN SHEEHAN
A Life of Meaning (Reason Not Required) If philosophy is to stay relevant, it must bridge the gap between feeling and thought. By ROBERT A. BURTON
Why We Never Die My son is experiencing the same fears of death that I did as a child. What should I tell him? By GABRIEL ROCKHILL
My Parents’ Mixed Messages on the Holocaust My mother and father survived with two different views of the world. Which one is right? By JASON STANLEY
Love. Labor. Lost. Our cultural idealization of love could use a revision. By NATASHA LENNARD and MOIRA WEIGEL
Women Who Love Women Aren’t Tragic Times have changed. So why do so many queer narratives still end in death? By JO CHIANG
Against ‘Sustainability’ The truth is we “sustain” nature to preserve the resources needed for our own consumption. By JEREMY BUTMAN
What Protest Looks Like The internet and visual culture have changed how we express discontent, for better and worse. By NATASHA LENNARD and NICHOLAS MIRZOEFF
How Religion Can Lead to Violence The potential for intolerance lies in the logic of religions like Christianity and Islam that claim to be based on a divine revelation. By GARY GUTTING
Arendt, Schmitt and Trump’s Politics of ‘Nation’ The Republican convention evoked two titans of 20th-century political philosophy, Carl Schmitt and Hannah Arendt. By FEISAL G. MOHAMED
Why You Don’t Know Your Own Mind Experiments in cognitive science, neuroimaging and social psychology are overturning a trope of philosophy. By ALEX ROSENBERG
When Law Is Not Justice Rule of law may be good for business, but in many parts of the world it’s not enough to ensure basic rights. By BRAD EVANS and GAYATRI CHAKRAVORTY SPIVAK
Race, Truth and Our Two Realities The facts tell me that black lives don’t matter. How is it we can disagree? By CHRIS LEBRON
There Is No Scientific Method Why are the results of science considered more reliable than those from other forms of human inquiry, like poetry or philosophy? By JAMES BLACHOWICZ
How Should We Respond to ‘Evil’? The attempt to “destroy” evil is an ethical version of a fool’s errand. By STEVEN PAULIKAS
America’s New Normal The poet Czeslaw Milosz thought the lessons of Europe’s traumatic 20th century were lost on most Americans. By ROBERT ZARETSKY
