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Literature & Culture, Philosophy & Religion

A Hidden Order of Reality

Far from being consigned to the ash heap of intellectual fashions, the structuralism of Claude Lévi-Strauss, a new biography shows, is in many ways still with us.

Gili Kliger

Philosophy & Religion, Politics

The Book on Marx That Arendt Never Finished

Hannah Arendt’s unfinished book on Marx offers a timely philosophical dialogue for our era of economic precarity.

Geoffrey Wildanger

Literature & Culture, Reading Lists

Writing the Twentieth Century

Poets, philosophers, playwrights. 

Rosie Gillies

Philosophy & Religion

The Myths of Enlightenment

For the philosopher and intellectual historian Hans Blumenberg, myths and metaphors were pivotal to philosophical thinking, not opposed to it.

Marta Figlerowicz

Philosophy & Religion, Politics

The Rawlsian Diagnosis of Donald Trump

Does Trump’s success vindicate or undermine liberal theory?

Samuel Scheffler

Reading Lists

Everyday Philosophy

No dead guys with beards in this reading list, we promise.

Rosie Gillies, Boston Review

Reading Lists

Noam Chomsky—Essential Reads

The “father of modern linguistics” turns 90! 

Rosie Gillies, Boston Review

Philosophy & Religion

The Philosophy of Our Time

Jean-Paul Sartre’s existential Marxism offers a radical philosophical foundation for today’s revitalized critiques of capitalism.

Ronald Aronson

Philosophy & Religion

Below the Asphalt Lies the Beach

There is still much to learn from the radical legacy of critical theory.

Seyla Benhabib

Philosophy & Religion, Politics

What John Stuart Mill Got Wrong about Freedom of Speech

Fascist politics exploits freedom of speech for authoritarian ends.

Jason Stanley

Politics

Democracy Is a Habit: Practice It

Many say that despite Trump, our democracy is strong. But John Dewey cautioned that institutions alone won't save us.

Melvin Rogers

Politics

The Democratic Coming Apart

Joshua Cohen talks to David Runciman about his new book, political action, and finding hope in the end of democracy.

David Runciman, Joshua Cohen

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