The Cultural Case for Saving Endangered Languages
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Life as a Flow
Two Truths Approach Each Other
What is it to be oneself? Or to live authentically? Psychoanalysis was a first, in terms of the psychological...
Private Guns and Public Safety: Making Sense of the Tension
A natural way to understand the conflict between respecting individual rights and advancing the public good is as follows: if a socially worthwhile cause...
Information and Data Will Never Deliver Creativity
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On Sentimental Value
We all have items of sentimental value—whether it’s a pebble picked up on the beach, a souvenir magnet from a trip abroad, or a...
Are We All Hypocrites About the Rule of Law?
Charges of “that’s illegal!” don’t seem to stick across the political divide. When the left charges Trump with illegal acts, the right points out Biden’s...
Medical Bias as Hierarchy
Just ten hours after giving birth to her second child via C-section, Kira Johnson died of haemorrhagic shock at Cedars-Sinai hospital, surrounded by some...
Towards a Democratic Economy
A strange cognitive dissonance is pervading our social life: we regard it as our inalienable right to govern ourselves democratically in one social sphere,...
Kant vs Hume: Can We Access Reality?
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Putting the “Social” in Social Media: Hannah Arendt, Political Judgment, and Online Polarization
The quantified metrics of likes, shares, and followers are often likened to currencies of social media. Like dollars and cents, we seek to acquire...