Philosophy & Religion

Philosophy & Religion, Politics

The Personal Is Not the Political

More than two decades after her death in 1975, Hannah Arendt has emerged as the political theorist of the post-totalitarian moment.

Seyla Benhabib

Forum

The New Politics of Consumption

Somebody needs to be for quality of life, not just quantity of stuff. And to do so requires an approach that does not trivialize consumption, but accords it the respect and centrality it deserves.

Juliet B. Schor

Philosophy & Religion, Politics

From Utopia to Myopia

How the aesthetic pose crippled political thinking.

Russell Jacoby

Arts in Society, Philosophy & Religion

Microreviews

The Ladies from St. Petersburg  Nina Berberova Translated by Marian Schwartz New Directions

Forum

Is Equality in Our Nature?

Pessimism about a selfish electorate is fundamentally misdirected.

Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis

Arts in Society, Philosophy & Religion

The Big Picture

By E. O. Wilson.

H. Allen Orr

Philosophy & Religion, Science & Nature

How the Mind Really Works

An exchange on Stephen Pinker's How the Mind Works.

Steven Pinker, Robert C. Berwick, Jeremy C. Ahouse

Law & Justice, Philosophy & Religion

The Right to Choose Death?

Do people have a right to choose death? More particularly, are euthanasia and physician-assisted

F. M. Kamm

Philosophy & Religion

Loyalty to Humanity

Is patriotism a morally irrelevant characteristic?

Anthony Appiah

Philosophy & Religion

Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism

The life of the cosmopolitan, who puts right before country, and universal reason before the symbols of national belonging, need not be boring, flat, or lacking in love.

Martha C. Nussbaum

Philosophy & Religion, Politics

The Possibility of Humanitarian Intervention

Noam Chomsky on the long history of American intervention.

Noam Chomsky

Arts in Society, Class & Inequality

Candidates for Survival

A Talk with Harold Bloom

Harold Bloom, Ellen Spirer