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1+ hour, 27+ min ago  (216+ words) Posted May 31, 2026 | Reviewed by Jessica Schrader To C. M. - a reminder. On the one hand, it would seem, we are desperate to believe that there are people out there who know what they are doing. On the other, we refuse to believe…...

2+ hour, 11+ min ago  (179+ words) Posted May 31, 2026 | Reviewed by Jessica Schrader Which raises the obvious question: what does it mean to be human anymore? So far, the machine has learned everything about the world from original human generated content. But now that it is so…...

1+ hour, 27+ min ago  (216+ words) Posted May 31, 2026 | Reviewed by Jessica Schrader To C. M. - a reminder. On the one hand, it would seem, we are desperate to believe that there are people out there who know what they are doing. On the other, we refuse to believe…...

2+ hour, 56+ min ago  (494+ words) Posted May 31, 2026 | Reviewed by Tyler Woods This is part two of a two-part series. This is the second installment of a two-part conversation. Mark Matousek: The renowned spiritual teacher, Jean Klein, whom you were lucky to spend time with, was…...

2+ hour, 35+ min ago  (171+ words) Think Again" is a personal and cutting-edge introduction to philosophy by award-winning teacher and renowned public philosopher John Kaag. The book encourages students to relate to their own lives the important questions raised by philosophy over the millennia. Motivated by…...

2+ hour, 32+ min ago  (655+ words) 250 years after the publication of The Wealth of Nations, its truth still brightly shines Coincident with the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the American Declaration of Independence is the 250th anniversary of the publication of The Wealth of…...

6+ day, 10+ hour ago  (267+ words) Can you tell Plato from Freud? And Darwin from Descartes? The Enlightenment from the Renaissance? This general knowledge trivia quiz is all about big ideas across history, philosophy, science, and culture. From the "invisible hand" to the fall of the…...

7+ hour, 11+ min ago  (1015+ words) Earlier decades carried their own constraints, rigid social expectations, limited information, and forms of conformity that could stifle as effectively as any notification. Yet they also left wider stretches of unstructured time that today's environment has largely compressed. Free thought…...

12+ hour, 38+ min ago  (169+ words) Muhammad Ali is among the Black historical figures and athletes President Donald Trump wants memorialized in his planned "National Garden of American Heroes." Fitting, in a way" one famous draft-dodger honoring another. The difference is Ali lost years of his…...

12+ hour, 31+ min ago  (285+ words) As an opinion columnist for The Star, I write about what I have come to think of as the architecture of city life. Sometimes that architecture is literal: buildings, businesses, neighborhoods. Sometimes it's the subtler framework of money, politics, and…...