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Philosophy & Religion, Science & Nature

The Quest to Tell Science from Pseudoscience

Philosopher Karl Popper famously asked how to tell the two apart. His answer—falsifiability—hasn’t aged well, but the effort lives on.

Michael D. Gordin

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Philosophy & Religion

Philosophy & Religion, Science & Nature

Misunderstanding Darwin

Natural selection’s secular critics get it wrong.

Ned Block, Philip Kitcher

Global Justice, Law & Justice

Biography and the Bench

Albie Sachs’s The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law.

Ryan Thoreson

Philosophy & Religion, Politics

The Lost Radical

Edward Carpenter’s democracy of the soul.

Vivian Gornick

Class & Inequality, Philosophy & Religion

Crisis and Hope

Theirs and ours.

Noam Chomsky

Global Justice, Philosophy & Religion

United By Hate

The uses of anti-Semitism in Chávez’s Venezuela.

Claudio Lomnitz, Rafael Sánchez

Global Justice, Philosophy & Religion

Land of My Dreams

Islamic liberalism under fire in India.

Martha C. Nussbaum

Global Justice, Law & Justice

A Response to David Mikhail’s Sleepwalker

We must focus on the laws that continue to put so many noncitizens— including legal residents —into detention and deportation proceedings.

Mark Dow

Philosophy & Religion, Politics

Against Cyber-Utopianism

Reflections on information technology and democracy. 

Joshua Cohen

Philosophy & Religion, Politics

Texting Toward Utopia

The problem with building public spheres from above, online or offline, is much like that of building Frankenstein’s monsters: we may not like the end product.

Evgeny Morozov

Global Justice, Law & Justice

Sleepwalker

Forgetting Shakir Baloch.

David Mikhail

Arts in Society, Global Justice

Private Arrangements

“Recognizing sharia” in England.

John R. Bowen

Law & Justice, Philosophy & Religion

Consensus History

In response to Sanford Levinson’s critique of Constitutional Conventions.

William Hogeland

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