The Real Story of Black Anarchists
...yet, as sociologist Dana M. Williams writes, modern anarchism—a political philosophy that generally opposes coercion, hierarchy, and inequality, both within activist movements and in the larger world—has a decades-long history...
The Madness of John Roberts
...of yesterday and that we are not the first ones to try to answer them… The constraint of precedent distinguishes the judicial method and philosophy from those of the political...
Why Learning the Names of Trees Is Good for You
When you walk through the woods, or around your neighborhood, do you recognize the trees you see? It might seem like knowing the names of trees has no particular value....
Francesca Vidotto: The Quantum Properties of Space-Time
...moments in physics. Both general relativity and quantum mechanics were born in a fertile philosophical environment, influenced for instance by the philosophy of Mach, or the philosophy of Poincaré. Einstein...
Walter Rodney, Guerrilla Intellectual
...the black struggle. Him was a doctor of philosophy but people just used to refer to him as African doctor.” During the day he taught courses on history that influenced...
We Have All the Cute Animal Posts
From the beginning, JSTOR Daily has followed the philosophy that there can never be too many stories about our weird, wonderful, surprising, and above all cute animal siblings. We’ve considered...
Discovering the Joy of Solitude While Social Distancing
If you suddenly find yourself with a lot of time alone, in quarantine or practicing social distancing, the experience might be unsettling. What to do with all that solitude? British...
How the Rothko Chapel Creates Spiritual Space
...apse, “Rothko wanted to reproduce the tension that he had experienced during a visit to the Byzantine basilica church of St. Marian Assunta in Torcell,” explains philosophy of religion scholar...
Darwin in Love
On a chilly Tuesday in January of 1839, in a private ceremony at a small Anglican church in rural England, Charles Darwin married Emma Wedgwood. She was the granddaughter of...