Dealing with dictators
When we’re honest about what dancing with the devil means, it becomes impossible to close our ears to its diabolical rhythm.
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Category: Articles & Essays
Our Body, Our Self
For a philosopher and historian of ideas, the observation that “life can interrupt one’s best efforts at contemplating it from a safe distance” sounds like a lament. But for Noga Arikha, an associate fellow at the Warburg Institute, it also came to express an opportunity…
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The Porn Puzzle
Why is porn at the same time widely accepted and capable of provoking outrage? My now fortnightly newsletter.
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Who are you calling liar?
The case against overuse of epithets like “liar” is not based on upholding norms of politeness. Rather, it is a principled argument against attributing guilt without evidence and a practical call to make sure than when we do need to say clearly, plainly, even angrily that someone has lied, that accusation has all the power, force and serious that it should.
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Why are trans rights so divisive?
Why are people who should on paper be allies be at each others’ throats?
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