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philosophy
In this week’s best-of roundup, we think about Rainer Maria Rilke, the ontology of God, and Italian pop music from the 1970s.
Diana Ross, Simone Weil, and our beloved Scaramucci go head to head in this week’s round-up of reading recommendations.
In a time of goblin mode, we think about C.S. Lewis, Christian apologetics, and Nancy Fraser.
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
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.