How to Harness Your Existential Wanderlust
“Man* is by Nature a migratory animal,” the elderly Frederick Douglass reflected in an 1887 speech about his global travels.…
Umberto Eco’s Antilibrary: Why Unread Books Are More Valuable to Our Lives than Read Ones
“It is our knowledge — the things we are sure of — that makes the world go wrong and keeps…
The Generosity of Selfishness: C.S. Lewis on How to Be Interesting
Our lives are defined not by what we have but what we give — on what and whom we spend…
Marianne Moore on the Three Elements of Persuasive Writing
Several years ago, rummaging through the archives of the Academy of American Poets, I came upon a box labeled “Ballots…
The Relationship Between Comedy, Democracy, and AI
“Humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any…
Albert Camus on Stubbornness and Creativity
Three years after he became the second-youngest laureate of the Nobel Prize, awarded him for literature that “with clear-sighted earnestness…
New Philosophy Journal Rankings by Citations in SEP in IEP
A philosopher who has “long been skeptical of journal rankings” based on polls or Scopus data has developed a new…
Mini-Heap
Mini-Heap posts usually appear when several new items accumulate in the Heap of Links, a collection of items from around…
Philosopher-led Team Nets $2.91 Million in Grants for Project on Safeguards of Liberalism
A team of researchers led by Purdue University associate professor of philosophy J.P. Messina has been awarded a nearly $2.91…
The Enhanced SEP Experience, Version 2
Five years ago, Andrew Shen created a browser extension, SEP+, that improved the experience of using the Stanford Encyclopedia of…