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Liberalism is the most successful idea of the past 400 years
But its best years are behind it, according to a new book.
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Shipwreck Is Everywhere
“Si recte calculum ponas, ubique naufragium est.” (If you reckon correctly, shipwreck is everywhere.) — Gaius Petronius. By A.E. Stallings.
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Yacob and Amo: Africa’s precursors to Locke, Hume and Kant
The highest ideals of Locke, Hume and Kant were first proposed more than a century earlier by an Ethiopian in a cave. By Dag Herbjørnsrud.
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Bizarre, Enormous 16th-Century Map Assembled for First Time
The largest known world map of its time—made of 60 individual sheets—can finally be seen as the mapmaker intended. By Greg Miller.
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Hail Cicero, a Death and Afterlife
He couldn’t save the Roman republic, but his writing crossed centuries to help inspire ours. By E.J. Hutchinson.
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What the Stoics did for us
Could a 2,300-year-old Graeco-Roman philosophy be the key to a happy 21st-century life? By Massimo Pigliucci.
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Nationhood, identity, anxiety: on Frenchness
The Histoire mondiale opens the door to that most alluring of prospects: a genuinely universal republican vision of Frenchness. By Sudhir Hazareesingh.
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The Instagrammable Charm of the Bourgeoisie
The modes of perception and living that we attribute to Instagram are rooted in a much older aesthetic of the picturesque. By Daniel Penny.
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The One Drop Fallacy
Last month, in the process of exploring the awkward fact that most people in today’s industrial world have never learned how to think, I talked at some length about thoughtstoppers: those crisp little words or phrases that combine absurdity and powerful emotions to short-circuit the thinking process... By John Michael Greer.
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Fourteen Words Even English Majors Aren’t Sure How To Pronounce
Just in case you want to work “synecdoche” into casual conversation. By Alex Naidus.
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Chapel Perilous: The Life and Thought Crimes of Robert Anton Wilson
An Interview with Prop Anon by R.U. Sirius.
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Is This Professor ‘Putin’s American Apologist’?
How Stephen F. Cohen became the most controversial Russia expert in America. By “Tailgunner” Jordan Michael Smith.
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Happy birthday Kierkegaard, we need you now
He is the dramatic thunderstorm at the heart of philosophy and his provocation is more valuable than ever. By Julian Baggini.
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Raped By Carl Jung, Then Murdered by the Nazis
But the theft and erasure of Sabina Spielrein’s intellectual legacy by the psychoanalytic establishment may be an even more troubling crime. By Phyllis Chesler.
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Anger is temporary madness: the Stoics knew how to curb it
Seneca thought that anger is a temporary madness, and that even when justified, we should never act on the basis of it. By Massimo Pigliucci.
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Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot
A popular symbol of protest today, Guy Fawkes was first the face of treason because of his role in the murderous Gunpowder Plot of 1605. By James Sharpe.
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In defence of the indefensible
Friday was the 23rd of October and the Internet sceptics had a field day mocking one of their favourite punching bags James Ussher (1581 – 1656) Archbishop of Armagh. By Thony Christie.
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Why religion is not going away and science will not destroy it
Historical evidence simply does not support such contentions. Indeed, it suggests that they are misguided. So why do they persist? The answers are political. By Peter Harrison.
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Michel Foucault in Death Valley
A Boom interview with Simeon Wade. By Heather Dundas.
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The Multiverse As Muse
German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, turns Leibniz’s argument for “the best of all possible worlds” on its head by proposing that we instead live in “the worst of all possible worlds.”
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