By: Greg Rowland

Socratic irony… elenctic method, or Skrull stratagem?

By: Mark Kingwell

Reason itself becomes the monster.

By: Joshua Glenn

Charming vs. Creepy is the battle of our age.

By: Brian Berger

Rhapsodic, recondite philosopher of music, hope, and Stalin.

By: Matthew Battles

Her advocacy of the voiceless is spirited and quixotic.

By: Tim Carmody

He defamiliarized science rather than taming it.

By: Joshua Glenn

In a 1945 essay, the French-Jewish author, philosopher, and journalist ALBERT CAMUS (1913-60) asked, “What is a man who revolts?” His answer: “First of all, it’s a man who says no. But if he refuses, […]

By: Joshua Glenn

Even though there’s no shepherd issuing orders, we behave like docile sheep.

By: Franklin Bruno

Over his fecund scientific career, ERWIN SCHRÖDINGER (1887-1961) placed quantum wave mechanics on a firm mathematical basis, contributed to the theory of color measurement and perception, and, in the 1944 lecture “What Is Life?”, anticipated […]

By: Peggy Nelson

HILARY PUTNAM (born 1926) is the most important philosopher you’ve never heard of. In an era when most theorists build their careers by limning the edges of history, Putnam is one of the hands-on few […]

By: Joshua Glenn

In the rumpus room of midcentury intellectual culture, WALTER BENJAMIN (1892-1940) is everybody’s favorite overstuffed velveteen rabbit. Susan Sontag, for example, rationalized Benjamin’s many self-defeating habits: the glacial pace at which he worked, she wrote, […]

By: Tor Aarestad

Perhaps JÜRGEN HABERMAS (born 1929) is most dear to us for developing and elaborating over the course of decades an intricately woven Grand Theory founded in the notion that sincere, earnest public discussion is the […]