A proposed French bill says so. But, strictly speaking, there can be no such thing as blasphemy within the terms of secular public order.

At a time of anxiety about fake news and conspiracy theories, philosophy can contribute to our most urgent cultural and political questions about how we come to believe what we think we know.

As more of Robinson’s books come back into print, reading them with Black Marxism can enrich our understanding of racial capitalism.

Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism helps us fight fascism with greater clarity and with ever more questions.

We cannot simply put the past behind us. The framework of transitional justice offers a promising path forward.

The Krugs and Dolezals dominate the headlines, but they are distractions from the fraud that imperils us all: believing oneself to be white.

Much maligned as a mere tactician of power, Machiavelli was in fact a philosopher of the people.

Two new books take aim at the moral failures of meritocracy. But we can advocate for a more just society without giving up on merit.

A new book suggests that modern readers can still follow the path of reason that Spinoza traced to true well-being, but they might not want to.

Many reject privatization for its distributional consequences. The deeper problem is that it threatens the very foundation of political legitimacy.

Unlike gender inequality, racial inequality primarily accumulates across generations. Transracial identification undermines collective reckoning with that injustice.

Simone de Beauvoir’s relationship with her readers was a mutually demanding collaboration.

The Frankfurt School on the appeal of authoritarianism—and how to counteract it.

An interview with Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin on the climate crisis, COVID-19, and the future of environmental politics. 

Pestilence and plague have often prompted waves of apocalyptic thinking, calling into question the steady march of progress in human history.

Anger’s history—along with the very fact that it has one—can shed light on the hypertrophied emotional climate of today.

Judith Butler’s ‘The Force of Nonviolence’ advocates for pacifism but neglects much of the tradition’s philosophy and feminist theory.

While existentialist thinking has much wisdom to offer about anxiety, contingency, and death, we must also think concretely about politics and institutions.

Though Modi's government draws concern today, the country's constitutional history suggests a framework for creating democracy in unlikely settings. 

Two conflicting visions of equality have recently emerged on the American political left. Only one aims at institutional change.

A new biography reveals the full scope of John Maynard Keynes’s critique of unfettered capitalism, emphasizing the economist’s larger philosophical vision of the good life.

Three things we need to get right.