What Desert Cities Can Teach Us about Water
...but Phoenix and Tucson portray how a slow, gradual shift in the underlying philosophy can result in a comprehensive, measurable change. “Picking on Phoenix in terms of sustainability is a...
How the Ban on Medical Advertising Hurt Women Doctors
...to give lectures. In her “Lectures on the Laws of Life,” given in a nearby church basement (and later edited and published), Blackwell extolled her philosophy of health: well-being could...
Burn This Book!
...did Li Zhi show much interest in creating an internally consistent philosophy. In fact, A Book to Burn is extravagantly and even joyfully self-contradictory. Perhaps, as some scholars have argued,...
The Occult Remedy the Puritans Embraced
...Paracelsus advanced a radically new medical philosophy. He believed in an interconnected universe. Chains of sympathetic relation connected all things, and the body of a human being was a microcosm...
Richard Prum: How Does Beauty Evolve?
Like the dance of many birds, the mating display of the large southeast Asian pheasant, the Great Argus, is a sight to behold. With his long wing feathers spread out...
The Complicated Issue of Transableism
In the late 1990s, the Scottish surgeon Robert Smith performed elective, above-the-knee amputations on two people. (The hospital he was affiliated with eventually compelled him to stop.) Smith’s patients are...
How “Carpe Diem” Got Lost in Translation
...Williams had starred in a film called “Seize the Day,” so I suppose he was pretty serious about getting this message out there). The phrase, and its accompanying philosophy, has...
What Should We Do about Our Aging Prison Population?
...sick—and not a safety threat. “Can we just have an American conception of mercy in which we let people go home when they’re sick?” The philosophy called “therapeutic jurisprudence” urges...
When Hortense Powdermaker Studied Hollywood
...imaginations: Hollywood represents totalitarianism. It is economic rather than political but its philosophy is similar to that of a totalitarian state. In Hollywood, the concept of man as a passive...
Judith Butler: The Early Years
...Body Politics of Julia Kristeva,” published in the feminist philosophy journal Hypatia offers a critical view of a critical view. Kristeva, the Bulgarian-French feminist philosopher, attempted to correct the androcentrism...