Queer Literature from North Africa and the Maghreb: A Reading List
The status of queer literature in the Maghreb and the Arab world is complex and nuanced as it varies by country and region. While there’s been an increase in openly...
Violent Conservation, Deep-Sea Art, and Early Printing
...Jasmine Liu Centuries before the Gutenberg Bible was produced, Chinese monks and artisans printed thousands of volumes of Buddhist sutras and legal philosophy. When Did People Start Kissing? (The Guardian)...
In Bhutan, Real Citizens Don’t Eat Meat
Buddha was probably a vegetarian. Or at least his recorded teachings suggest as much: according to traditional Buddhist philosophy, eating the flesh of another sentient being is quite the sacred...
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 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...
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...
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’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...
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...