Essay How to succeed in college the old-fashioned way July 16, 2026 Around two thousand years ago, in a Greek city that had long been both politically and culturally under the sway of the Roman empire, a teenaged boy named Nicander participated in a coming-of-age ritual. Read More
Essay Americans and Europeans must learn from each other on free speech June 25, 2026 Americans and Europeans fundamentally misunderstand one another on free speech. Read More
Reading List Read with Pride June 01, 2026 Celebrate Pride throughout the year with this diverse collection of books exploring LGBTQ+ issues and perspectives. Read More
Essay You can鈥檛 bowl with a chatbot May 12, 2026 Vehement negative reactions to people befriending, dating, or even marrying AI chatbots are everywhere. Why is that? Read More
Podcast The Case Against Education May 11, 2026 We鈥檙e continuing our series on philosopher Harry Frankfurt鈥檚 seminal work, On Bullshit. Our discussion with Bryan Caplan is on education and bullshit, with a special focus on his book, The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money. Read More
Interview Steven Nadler on Spinoza, Atheist April 30, 2026 How could a person whose books are suffused with talk of God be an atheist? Steven Nadler, one of the world鈥檚 leading authorities on the philosopher, aims to settle the question and show that that鈥檚 exactly what he was. Read More
The Bollingen Series then and now April 29, 2026 The Bollingen Series, a collection of 275 volumes with the聽Collected Works of聽C.G.聽Jung聽as its centerpiece, has been published by聽快色直播 since 1969. Read More
Podcast Listen in: Spinoza, Atheist April 20, 2026 From Pulitzer Prize finalist Steven Nadler, this fascinating historical and philosophical narrative unravels the mystery of whether Spinoza was an atheist. Read More
Essay Pursuits of happiness March 05, 2026 鈥淥f course we all want to be happy,鈥� wrote the Roman statesman and orator Marcus Tullius Cicero in 46 BCE.聽 In doing so, he was echoing not only centuries of popular sentiment but also the teaching of Greek philosophers. Read More
Essay Carrying the Olympic flame February 06, 2026 My application to carry the Olympic torch in my adopted home of Sicily had been accepted. Along with 10,000 others from every walk of life鈥攆rom famous celebrities to those who battle crippling disease鈥擨 would be part of the team that transports the flame from its origin in Ancient Olympia to the Games. I knew it would be a wonderful experience, but the strongest impression it left on me is not one that I expected. Read More
Podcast On Democracy and Bullshit January 14, 2026 We鈥檙e continuing our series on philosopher Harry Frankfurt鈥檚 seminal work, On Bullshit. Our discussion with H茅l猫ne Landemore is on democracy and bullshit, with a special focus on her book, Open Democracy: Reinventing Popular Rule for the Twenty-First Century. Read More
Podcast What Do You Want Out of Life? December 17, 2025 What do you want out of life? To make a lot of money鈥攐r work for justice? To run marathons鈥攐r sing in a choir? To have children鈥攐r travel the world? The things we care about in life鈥攆amily, friendship, leisure activities, work, our moral ideals鈥攐ften conflict, preventing us from doing what matters most to us. Read More
Essay Minding our minds December 08, 2025 Roughly twenty-five centuries ago in northern India, the Buddha learned to watch his feelings in order to forge new kinds of relationships with them. Read More
Essay The Aztecs鈥� grammar of gratitude November 27, 2025 Forty years ago, I was deeply involved with a manuscript housed in the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley. It was written in a language variously known as Aztec, Mexicano, and Nahuatl.聽 Each of these names carries a bit of truth. Read More
Podcast Death in a Shallow Pond November 24, 2025 From the bestselling coauthor of Wittgenstein鈥檚 Poker, Death in a Shallow Pond is a fascinating account of Peter Singer鈥檚 controversial 鈥渄rowning child鈥� thought experiment鈥攁nd how it changed the way people think about charitable giving. Read More
