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Becca Rothfeld

Feminist arguments against body modification are a dead end.

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On the imperative of inter-species solidarity.
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Join us as we welcome six thinkers to discuss AI governance, cooperation democracy, and more. 

Martha C. Nussbaum, Jeremy Bendik-Kymer

Martha Nussbaum on her new book—and why a full development of our humanity requires developing our capacities to care for animals.

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A reading list in honor of the radical philosopher’s birthday.
The Institute for Social Research was founded one hundred years ago. We ignore its prescient theorists at our peril.
Jana Bacevic, Peter Vickers

Despite debates about scientific certainty, we do not need 100 percent consensus on a scientific claim to accept it as true. 

Nathalie Etoke, Lewis Gordon

In the Black existentialist tradition, freedom lies in the constant struggle for liberation.

Panashe Chigumadzi, Cornel West

When Desmond Tutu reconciled African theology and Black theology.

Johanna Winant

Reflecting on three monumental works of modernism—James Joyce's Ulysses, T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, and Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus—a hundred years on.

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