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”...
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...
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...
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...
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God: Annotated
Enfield Congregational Church shares its name with the small Connecticut town in which its worshipers have occupied four different buildings since its founding in 1683. The current iteration, which opened...
Using Data to Discover and Explore the Stories of Enslaved People
Since the early modern era, Black and Indigenous slavery has been a recurrent, deeply unsettled subject of humanistic inquiry, across the disciplines of history, philosophy, letters, and the arts. While...
The First Famous Football Team Behind Bars
...created committees for athletics, education, and entertainment. A stereo slide from the dining room at Sing Sing Prison via Wikimedia Commons The underlying philosophy came from Thomas Mott Osborne, warden...
Adam Smith, Revolutionary?
...mainstream as a friend of French philosophy. Author of the classic but infrequently read The Wealth of Nations (1776), Smith is something of a father to capitalism. He’s therefore taken...
Elements of Design: Spotlight on Color
Take a moment to think about your favorite color. Close your eyes and let it fill your mind. Why is it your favorite? Does it invoke a specific memory or...
“The Murders in the Rue Morgue” by Edgar Allan Poe: Annotated
...the deliberateness and entire distinctness of the enunciation. Observing him in these moods, I often dwelt meditatively upon the old philosophy of the Bi-Part Soul, and amused myself with the...