Philosophy

Let's Admit it, the Financial Crisis is Kind of Cool

Billy Kimball | Posted 10.01.2008 | Politics

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Billy Kimball

I have to admit that watching the great wheels of the global economy sputter to a halt and then periodically be restarted by the main force of the U.S. government in the past few weeks has been kind of cool.

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We Would Benefit From A New Word: To Proact

Simon Sinek | Posted 08.19.2008 | Living

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Simon Sinek

It's 11:40am. A perfect summer's day. Not too much humidity. The streets are alive with people. I'm in a taxi, trying to get through New York City...

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Liberal Principles II: People Are Political Animals

Linda Hirshman | Posted 07.01.2008 | Politics

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Linda Hirshman

Like the centrism that fueled the Clinton years, minimalism is a philosophy for losers. Democrats were sure losers in those years, so they were probably well-served by a philosophy for losers.

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Liberal Principles

Linda Hirshman | Posted 06.30.2008 | Politics

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Linda Hirshman

Liberals have a path out of Egypt. But if our principles are still unbaked or minimalized, it will be another long trip. As the warthog said in The Lion King, "Put your behind in the past."

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Is God A Cosmic Monster?

John W. Whitehead | Posted 06.02.2008 | Living

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John W. Whitehead

"I am more afraid that we are really rats in a trap. Or, worse still, rats in a laboratory. Someone said, I believe, 'God always geometrizes.' Supposi...

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Welcome to The New World DisOrders -- They Are Legion

Carol Maric | Posted 05.12.2008 | Politics

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Carol Maric

If Albert Einstein and Sir Isaac Newton can be relegated to the ranks of "Autism" these days, then The New World does seem perilously close to being upside down--as I have always suspected.

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That vs. Who: The Politics of Linguistics

Carol Maric | Posted 05.06.2008 | Politics

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Carol Maric

I Object! Or is that Subject? This was my first reaction to the common linguistic objectification of sentient beings which has become pervasive in America.

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Politics After the "Modern" has Passed

Paula Gordon | Posted 04.04.2008 | Home

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Paula Gordon

We were in small-town Pennsylvania last week.  We were there to record a series of conversations with Frederick Ferré, who literally wrote the book ...

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Obama is Nietzschean

Ali Eteraz | Posted 03.26.2008 | Politics

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Ali Eteraz

People who read Obama's books see in them a man who doesn't think of himself as a finished product, but as someone who views himself as a canvas upon which life is constantly drawing new lines.

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The Danger of Following the Law

Ethan Todras-Whitehill | Posted 11.08.2007 | Living

Read More: Problems With the Legal System, Government, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Locke, Philosophy, Thomas Hobbes, Laws, Living News
Ethan Todras-Whitehill

In a system that is dependent on aggressive self-interest, not protecting yourself is foolish.

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