Into Philosophy

Katherine finally explains why she left college for a year: she found it fake. But now she's going back, and she is on a mission, slow and steady.

A conversation about dirt becomes a discussion of death, grief, and philosophy.

For old age to be understood differently, our whole life needs rethinking. And so, too, the philosophy that is humanly satisfying.

As many of us head into the new year, perhaps it’s worth remembering how philosophy is personal.

What is it to responsibly work on the world? Some college students want to know.

Intergenerational integrity reshapes the academy, beginning with the Earth that gave rise to us.

Talk about “evil” is beside the point.

Under what conditions can your academic work be meaningful? De Beauvoir has an unsettling and extreme answer.

Katherine speaks to her old friend Nora about what political engagement on campus lacks, online politics, and helping to make our communities work.

What does the fool do when they are irritated by their conditions enough that they feel like tearing into everything? They let the irritation reach their soul. They let another’s beliefs or practices trouble them. Like I said, they are foolish.