Is Star Wars Cultural Appropriation?
...J. Wetmore Jr. pointed out in 2000, Lucas also borrows from Asian philosophy and religion for the films’ noted spirituality. “The theology and cosmology of Star Wars construct an ultimate...
Teaching Black Women’s Self-Care during Jim Crow
...health as a medium to true beauty and self-regard, which was achievable despite white supremacy’s relentlessness. In the official “Philosophy of the Department of Physical Education for Women,” she named...
Did Thoreau Do Yoga?
...he presented worldly activity as a theatrical performance with the transcendent soul as witness—a common theme in Indian philosophy. He describes “a part of me, which, as it were, is...
The Slaughter of Elk at Yellowstone National Park
...that prompted a thorough reconsideration of Park Service practices around elk. The board reoriented park philosophy in ways that appeared more ecological, more natural. Despite promoting biological principles as a...
The Philosophy of Posthumous Art
Recently, we’ve seen new albums from Prince and a newly published novel by Richard Wright. Of course, releasing or completing work after the death of the creator isn’t a new...
The Theory Journal: Still Trendy after All These Years?
...intellectual history of the 1960s, with American scholars exposed to Continental philosophy and radical politics at the same time. They read works with newly coined -isms, like poststructuralism and postmodernism,...
The Soap Bubble Trope
...in the history of philosophy, literature, the arts, and science. “Make a soap bubble and observe it; you could spend a whole life studying it,” Sir William Thomson, Lord Kelvin,...
Patriotism and the LGBTQ+ Rights Movement
...appealing to the “Spirit of ’76” and the “philosophy of freedom on which the republic was founded.” (That statute would be declared unconstitutional by the New York Court of Appeals...