That Time Jean-Paul Sartre Got High on Mescaline
It was exactly the kind of thing a reckless twenty-something-year-old would do. But why would a rational, academically accomplished, thirty-year-old philosophy teacher do it? Wouldn’t someone who had won the...
From Imperialism to Postcolonialism: Key Concepts
...Are: Readings in Africana Philosophy, ed. by Fred Lee Hord, Mzee Lasana Okpara, and Jonathan Scott Lee, 2nd ed. (University of Massachusetts Press, 2016), 196–205. This excerpt from Aimé Césaire’s...
Beatrice Hastings: The Forgotten Modernist
...worked with editor A. R. Orage, a long-time lover, on the cutting-edge weekly magazine The New Age, which “mixed politics, philosophy, and aesthetics with a socialist agenda inspired by the...
The Scholars Charting Black Music’s Timeline: Earl Stewart and Michael Veal
Carnegie Hall recently released the Timeline of African American Music, an interactive project led by ethnomusicologist Portia K. Maultsby. The timeline reveals the history of genre and style of Black...
Security Studies: Foundations and Key Concepts
...Foreign Affairs, Part 2.” Philosophy & Public Affairs, 1983. As the Soviet bloc weakened and more developing nations abandoned socialist experiments, liberalism re-emerged in the field during the 1980s. Michael...
What is Dance Activism?
...“up-rise,” considering the physical act as neither passive nor weak but rather, purposeful in its resistance. https://youtu.be/SeE5uUk_5_g The gesture within choreography is almost always meaningful, but philosophy professor and dance...
Octavia Butler’s Roots in Black History
...mired in a wish to return to a more stable past. In contrast, Lauren’s Earthseed philosophy and organization offers a vision for escaping historical patterns and becoming something new, consciously...
Carbon Offsets for the Hadza People, Swedish Meals, and Freedom in Taoism
...and duty to the state. But how did its sometimes radical ideas about personal freedom play out in Chinese philosophy and politics? The Power of Poop (Wired) by Jenny Morber...
Terence McKenna’s Anarchic Psychedelic Religion
...a religion and a radical political philosophy. McKenna entered the world of psychedelics—or entheogens, a term Monteith prefers for its more spiritual connotations—at a time when the popular perception of...
Words on the Way In: A Retrospective
“One cannot step in the same river twice,” states Heraclitus; “Panta rhei (transl. all flows).” Paradoxically, change being a predictable constant in life may be one of the most prevailing...