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Philosophy & Religion, Race

A Love Supreme

Remembering James H. Cone.

Cornel West

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Philosophy & Religion

Philosophy & Religion, Politics

Hong Kong's Umbrella Generation

Photo: Pasa Au Yeung On December 11, 2014, police in Hong Kong cleared the sites where for

Guobin Yang, Ran Liu

Philosophy & Religion

Marcuse Today

Fifty years later, One-Dimensional Man is more prescient than its author could have imagined.

Ronald Aronson

Global Justice, Philosophy & Religion

Zionism and the Right to Culture

Can Israel Be Both Jewish and Democratic?

Omri Boehm

Literature & Culture, Philosophy & Religion

My Body Is a Cage

In Thrown, Kerry Howley explores the fleeting ecstasy of a brutal sport.

Jenny Hendrix

Philosophy & Religion, Politics

Rethinking Privacy

A little surveillance can do us a lot of good.

William H. Simon

Global Justice, Philosophy & Religion

When Protesting Israel Becomes Hating Jews

There has been a great deal of attention to anti-Semitic demonstrations in Europe.

Jason Stanley

Literature & Culture, Philosophy & Religion

Measure Words

A crosscultural reading group in Beijing.

Drew Calvert

Class & Inequality, Philosophy & Religion

The Neoliberal Bailout

Sure, the system worked—we avoided another Great Depression. But it worked much better for some than for others. 

Jonathan Kirshner

Philosophy & Religion, Politics

Is Get-Out-the-Vote Bad for Democracy?

How efforts to increase voter turnout exacerbate inequality.

Anthony Fowler

Forum

Saving Privacy

Framing surveillance as a tradeoff between privacy and security is a dead end for democracy.

Reed Hundt

Philosophy & Religion

Norman Finkelstein: Teaching John Stuart Mill in Iran [Video]

Norman Finkelstein is of course best known for his work on the Israeli-Palestinian

Danny Postel

Philosophy & Religion

The Weak Self: Christopher Lasch on Narcissism

Vivian Gornick’s review of The Americanization of Narcissism is written with her usual cogency

George Scialabba

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