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    • Dec 12, 2019
    • 4 min

    Forrest Gump As My Spiritual Guru

    The lines “Run, Forrest, run!” are etched in public memory as one of the most memorable scenes of cinema history, when young Forrest...
    • Jun 4, 2019
    • 5 min

    At Least they Didn’t Discuss the Weather

    Whenever a philosophical and academic furor becomes the object of public attention, opprobrium and excitement, it is the duty of the...
    • May 31, 2019
    • 5 min

    Andrew Breitbart’s Hate Machine

    The following is a hilarious excerpt from Bob Woordward’s recent book, Fear: Trump in the White House: In August 2010, six years before...
    • May 29, 2019
    • 3 min

    How To Actually Change the World

    If there has been a political figure with a legacy so untouched and untarnished, it has to be Mahatma Gandhi. Orwell wrote of Gandhi, a...
    • Mar 23, 2019
    • 6 min

    Cārvāka: The Atheist-Materialist School of Indian Philosophy

    Cārvāka is an unorthodox school in Indian Philosophy which deals with epistemological questions like – How far can we know reality? How...
    • Jan 29, 2019
    • 9 min

    The War Against Truth

    The official newspaper of the Communist Part of the Soviet Union was called Pravda (translated to ‘truth’) because it engaged in...
    • Jan 29, 2019
    • 7 min

    The Philosophy of LGBTQ+

    LGBTQ+ ideas and thought have a historical relationship in the philosophical discourse. From the ancient Greeks to ancient India. The...
    • Jan 28, 2019
    • 5 min

    Capitalism in America

    “No manufactures for distant sale have ever yet been established in any of their towns,” wrote Adam Smith of Britain’s American colonies...
    • Jan 28, 2019
    • 45 min

    The Philosopher as an Intellectual

    I Without going too much into the conceptions of the intellectual, let me just state that in my view, in a contemporary democratic...
    • Jan 25, 2019
    • 15 min

    Seeing Backward to Look Ahead

    “The sum of Martin Luther King’s four catastrophic forces—militarism, materialism, racism, and poverty—point to something larger in the...
    • Jan 24, 2019
    • 24 min

    How to Disagree without being Disagreeable

    Introduction It is tempting to assume that disagreements about the principles, policies and institutions that shape contemporary...
    • Nov 5, 2018
    • 6 min

    What’s Your Totem?

    The fascinating aspect about dreams is not what is unreal, but the parts which are so real that we can’t confront them when we’re awake....
    • Oct 16, 2018
    • 6 min

    Two Sides of Different Coins

    “For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that our real...
    • Oct 12, 2018
    • 6 min

    Greek Antiquity & Early Vedanta Philosophy

    It is not hard to find similarities between philosophers across times. This article however, does not seek to establish a definite...
    • Oct 12, 2018
    • 6 min

    Are Successful People Just Lucky?

    Why are there “successful” people and what are the reasons they are successful, and others are not? Is it because of hard work and the...
    • Oct 12, 2018
    • 5 min

    The Selfish Nature of Altruism

    When people consider altruism, they refer to acts of selfless compassion. To be altruistic is to go beyond the opportunistic nature of...
    • Oct 12, 2018
    • 8 min

    Netflix & the Choicelessness of Choice

    With the advent of ‘modernity’, it has become crucial that we, as human beings, choose, and even more important aspect of it is that we...
    The Millennial Writer on Drugs | Andrew Marzoni
    • Jul 14, 2018
    • 7 min

    The Millennial Writer on Drugs | Andrew Marzoni

    American writers have been writing about drugs since at least 1842, when English immigrant William Blair published “An Opium-Eater in...
    • Jul 14, 2018
    • 11 min

    The Two Cultures Revisited: On Steven Pinker’s ‘Enlightenment Now’ | Jared Marcel Pollen

    Does the Enlightenment require a defense? Aren’t its truths demonstrative and self-evident? In 2018, that a book like Steven...
    • Jul 10, 2018
    • 3 min

    XXXTentacion: Should we mourn the death of a bad person? | Erica Schumener

    Why should we mourn the death of a bad person? I was recently struck by an interesting philosophical conversation on death that emerged...
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