Debates

“We have between 150 and 200 bears in the Missoula Valley right now.”[i]

That was Chris Servheen, a former U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service bear specialist urging the Missoula City …
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A friend of mine, Shahal Khoso, a PhD student in Spain, shared with me the other week a screenshot of a short paragraph on Martin Heidegger on Lahore’s smog. “A …
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What are the drivers of senile capitalism? I will list five of them in no particular order, and then proceed to discuss their interconnections:

1. Debt. The only road …
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At this time of an intensifying climate breakdown, it is easy to experience a strong sense of guilt about carbon emissions from the means of transport we take especially in …
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How to Discuss This War

One of the main difficulties in discourses around the Russo-Ukrainian War is the gap that remains between how they are constructed in Ukraine and …
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If Gallup polls are anything to go by, half of Americans, and that includes Lady Gaga, believe that homosexuality is innate. A third put their money on what seems to …
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Tex Avery’s 1951 animation, “Car of Tomorrow,” is limited only by the historical imagination. Wrapped in chrome and richly colored, the car of tomorrow is long, smooth, and muscular. Inspired …
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Over the last decades, critiques of my reading of Buddhism have been abundant. Even those who are otherwise sympathetic to my general approach claim that I miss the point when …
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Youssef Ishaghpour, an Iranian-born author and film scholar, once said that Godard wanted to live the history of cinema as a love story[1]. I would add that Godard’s films can …
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Robert Nozick’s Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974) is the most important scholarly work of libertarian philosophy.  Published just three years after John Rawls’s A Theory of Justice, it appeared at …
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