Why Do We Love Thinking About Schrödinger’s Cat?
We all know Schrödinger’s Cat, that unfortunate feline trapped in a box in a strange, indeterminate state. But why did a few lines in an old physics paper spark so...
Connie Converse Wasn’t Just a Folk Singer. She Was a Scholar, Too.
...will eventually breed another human conflict. One need not adopt such a broad philosophy, however, to investigate the possibility of perverse relationships between social control and social violence, both within...
The I Ching in America
Since it was first written in the ninth century BCE, the divination text known as the I Ching, Yijing, or Book of Changes has been used and interpreted in many...
Fire and Brimstone
...is, philosophy allows a person to focus on thinking and rationality while alive and thus to draw closer to the truth of the afterlife before death’s arrival. For that reason,...
Lyndon B. Johnson’s Decision Speech: Annotated
...I have followed the personal philosophy that I am a free man, an American, a public servant, and a member of my party, in that order always and only. For...
The Importance of Newspapers for the Red Power Movement
...Akwesasne Notes, Alcatraz Newsletter, the Indian News, the Indian Voice, and the Warpath helped spread the Red Power philosophy. “As was true for Red Power activism in general, the pan...
The European MonEUlith: Nietzsche and Nationalism
...explains that Nietzsche’s “inquiries into the national characters of English, French, and German philosophy and his analysis of how the Greek milieu provided a ground in which philosophy could flourish”...
Yale’s Lost Indian Museum
...forms of communal interaction.” Yale’s collection had company in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Harvard’s “Philosophy Chamber” (Cambridge), Peale’s Museum (Philadelphia), the Massachusetts Historical Society (Boston), the East...
How Upper Lips Got Stiff
In September 2022, Roger Federer ended his professional career playing doubles alongside Rafael Nadal, a fierce competitor during his long career. Soon after, clips of the tennis greats sitting side...
Radical Theology: A Syllabus
...the past century, more than just an approach or a theory or a philosophy, radical theology is a disposition, an attitude, and a vibe for those who can’t help but...