What the Ancients Knew
Ryan S. Olson
The histories and literatures of antiquity can help us address some of our contemporary ethical deficit disorder.
You Can’t Go Home Again
Charlie Tyson
Our thinking about nostalgia is badly flawed because it relies on defective assumptions about progress and time.
Waking From the Dream of Total Knowledge
Daniel Kraft
Considering how relationships of cooperation and perhaps even solidarity might be forged between human beings and animals.
Current Issue
Of Continuing Interest
A selection of articles from the archives
The Walking Wounded
Mary Townsend
We talk about a suicide contagion’s progression across a given community as though it were a biological phenomenon, an epidemic without conscious direction.
The First Authoritarian
Tae-Yeoun Keum
The eureka moment came when Popper perceived an affinity between Plato and fascism.
The Right to Care
Adin Lears
Defenders of abortion might more wisely reframe their case around the central importance of care.