Philosopher and librarian Tony Corsentino ponders how you negotiate repugnant views in the classroom — and the courtroom.

The Good Place’s finale reminds us of things we never knew — like the impossibility of Heaven, and the reality of our singular, inescapable loneliness.

Naomi Osaka’s display of grace and integrity reminds us about what matters in a topsy-turvy and bad-faith world.

In the early 1980s, the philosopher Paul Oskar Kristeller looked up “creativity” in the dictionary.  He groused that […]

If a person does good things, but thinks only bad ones, can that person be good? Can we, […]

ToM Best of 2013 There’s something very charming about the thought of a band of philosopher-musicians. Enter the […]

Some people will tell you to skip a book’s introduction so that you might form a first impression […]