An animation of a cat that shifts between the cat being alive and the cat being dead

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

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...
Image showing the sixty-four hexagrams from the King Wen sequence of the I Ching.

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...
Christ's Descent into Hell by Hieronymus Bosch

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 addresses the Nation March 31, 1968

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...
From the cover of NARP Newsletter, published by Native Alliance for Red Power, 1969

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...
Friedrich Nietzsche by Edvard Munch

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”...
Ezra Stiles, 1770

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...
A study of facial expression and gesture, 1823

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...
L'Envoûteuse (The Sorceress) by Georges Merle, 1883

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...