Maybe information itself is more pernicious than the dis- or mis- varieties. The glut of facts can feel—in their sheer impenetrable volume—anxious-making, anomic, and numbing
Category Archive: philosophy
Reach out and don’t touch someone.
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 […]