Dec 12, 20194 minForrest Gump As My Spiritual GuruThe lines “Run, Forrest, run!” are etched in public memory as one of the most memorable scenes of cinema history, when young Forrest...
Jun 4, 20195 minAt Least they Didn’t Discuss the WeatherWhenever a philosophical and academic furor becomes the object of public attention, opprobrium and excitement, it is the duty of the...
May 31, 20195 minAndrew Breitbart’s Hate MachineThe 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, 20193 minHow To Actually Change the WorldIf 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, 20196 minCārvāka: The Atheist-Materialist School of Indian PhilosophyCārvāka is an unorthodox school in Indian Philosophy which deals with epistemological questions like – How far can we know reality? How...
Jan 29, 20199 minThe War Against TruthThe official newspaper of the Communist Part of the Soviet Union was called Pravda (translated to ‘truth’) because it engaged in...
Jan 29, 20197 minThe 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, 20195 minCapitalism 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, 201945 minThe Philosopher as an IntellectualI Without going too much into the conceptions of the intellectual, let me just state that in my view, in a contemporary democratic...
Jan 25, 201915 minSeeing 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, 201924 minHow to Disagree without being DisagreeableIntroduction It is tempting to assume that disagreements about the principles, policies and institutions that shape contemporary...
Nov 5, 20186 minWhat’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, 20186 minTwo 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, 20186 minGreek Antiquity & Early Vedanta PhilosophyIt is not hard to find similarities between philosophers across times. This article however, does not seek to establish a definite...
Oct 12, 20186 minAre 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, 20185 minThe Selfish Nature of AltruismWhen people consider altruism, they refer to acts of selfless compassion. To be altruistic is to go beyond the opportunistic nature of...
Oct 12, 20188 minNetflix & the Choicelessness of ChoiceWith the advent of ‘modernity’, it has become crucial that we, as human beings, choose, and even more important aspect of it is that we...
Jul 14, 20187 minThe Millennial Writer on Drugs | Andrew MarzoniAmerican writers have been writing about drugs since at least 1842, when English immigrant William Blair published “An Opium-Eater in...
Jul 14, 201811 minThe Two Cultures Revisited: On Steven Pinker’s ‘Enlightenment Now’ | Jared Marcel PollenDoes the Enlightenment require a defense? Aren’t its truths demonstrative and self-evident? In 2018, that a book like Steven...
Jul 10, 20183 minXXXTentacion: Should we mourn the death of a bad person? | Erica SchumenerWhy should we mourn the death of a bad person? I was recently struck by an interesting philosophical conversation on death that emerged...