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The NYT reports on a recent surge in China’s foreign direct investment. China is taking advantage of a savings stockpile and cheap energy prices to seure itself reliable flows of […]
Race and IQ tests are two nebulous determinants of nebulous qualities that have incited fractious and controversial reactions as long as they have existed. Many studies of the correlation between […]
It’s not news that neither Playboy magazine, nor the Enterprise generally, is doing so hot. The entire New York editorial office was moved to Chicago recently, and longtime chief executive […]
In a recent editorial for the Wall Street Journal, author of the Bush-era “torture memos” John Yoo warns against Obama’s closing of Guantanamo and effort to stamp out Geneva-unfriendly interrogation […]
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David Brooks, in his column, “Money for Idiots,” writes today in the New York Times that although our economic system—and life in general?—is supposed to be based on the idea […]
Ever since US Ambassador to Canada David Wilkins flubbed Canadian Geography 101 during a live CBC interview in 2005, relations between the two countries have been a little awkward. But […]
The alternative but clever Boston Phoenix is convinced that the New York Times editorializing, Princeton teaching, Nobel Prize-winning celebrity economist Paul Krugman is the man to desend, deus-ex-machina-like, into the […]
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The philosopher recounts how Francis Bacon and Jean Jacques Rousseau met their end.
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The philosopher explains the instruction of autonomy.
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Philosopher Simon Critchley discusses the new Enlightenment.
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The philosopher takes a look at Nietzsche’s approach to life and death.
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Simon Critchley on the brilliance of Epicurus.
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The philosopher discusses the ape-like nature of humans.
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The philosopher emphasizes the need to be aware of “a never returning transient present.”
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The philosopher talks about how suicide has become a taboo and how death could be regarded differently.
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Simon Critchley’s historiography of death.
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The astrophysicist wants to shift the focus from avoiding death to living a full life.
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Are you 26 years-old or older? If so, you are older than Isaac Newton was when he invented calculus… on a dare! Neil deGrasse Tyson explains why Newton is the greatest physicist of all time.