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"ARENDT REMAINED FOR THE REST OF HER LIFE LOYAL TO THE WHOLE PHILOSOPHIC TRADITION THAT HAD HELPED LEAD TO HITLERISM."
Male hysteria, currently on view here and here, is a strange thing. It's easy to find, among men, examples of...
CLUELESS
Stanley Fish, in his latest New York Times blog post, unwittingly demonstrates why there's so much, as he puts it...
CONTEMPLATING DESTRUCTIVE FORCES IN A SECULAR, MEDITATIVE WAY
The first recipient of the Pen/Pinter Prize, in honor of Harold Pinter, and dedicated to writers who, as Pinter put...
THE SUBTROPICS
On the morning of the day my father killed himself, I woke up from a dream in which I was...
ANNIE LE
"Most frightening is the fact that Le may have been killed by someone who walks among us, considering the basement...
HACKING TUTORIAL
When I read that Ian Hacking, a Canadian philosopher, had won a big prize - the Holberg, worth close to...
RICHARD POIRIER, VAGUELY
Richard Poirier, man of letters, founding editor of the journal Raritan, and longtime Rutgers University English professor, has died. In...
IN MEMORY OF LESZEK KOLAKOWSKI
Leszek Kolakowski's death reminds us that Terry Eagleton's recent attack on the atheism of Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins is...