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Philosophy Weekend: Faces 24 Aug 2013 | 10:37 pm
Who wants words, on an August weekend before the final week of the summer? I don't. Let's look at some pictures instead. Renee Jorgensen Bolinger, a philosophy graduate student at the University of So...
Once More to West Egg, Through the Valley of Ashes 20 Aug 2013 | 02:26 pm
This is Willets Point, a sprawling center for automobile salvage located just west of Flushing Meadows Park in New York City, a place of amazing squalid beauty. CitiField, where the Mets play baseball...
The Space of an Idea 16 Aug 2013 | 05:26 am
I had an idea for a blog post. I'm on summer vacation -- not exactly on a beach, but near one -- so I didn't finish it in time. Since my idea was for a blog post about the idea of a blog post, I'm not...
Philosophy Weekend: Your Frame of Reference 9 Aug 2013 | 12:54 am
Do you ever get a "stuck" feeling when you're trying to think? How can we ever know if we're thinking widely enough, if we're failing to realize something obvious, something so large that it can't fit...
Katharine Graham, the Heroine of the Washington Post 6 Aug 2013 | 01:30 am
A surprise announcement that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is buying the Washington Post has signaled the end of a distinctive era in family publishing. The Washington Post has been owned by three generat...
Philosophy Weekend: Chomsky the Hopeless Anarcho-Syndicalist 3 Aug 2013 | 03:12 pm
I wish I could love Noam Chomsky, the American political philosopher from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, author of important books about revolutionary politics like Hegemony or Survival an...
Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove 31 Jul 2013 | 12:58 am
There's a moment in Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson’s Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove when Ben Greenman (the book's co-writer and the co-manager of Questlove’s the Roots) makes the observa...
Philosophy Weekend: Slavoj Zizek and the Dream of Yugoslavia 28 Jul 2013 | 01:00 am
Last weekend I mentioned two keys to appreciating Slavoj Zizek, the popular but controversial Marxist philosopher. First, I said that his philosophical stance if one of defensive advocacy rather than ...
The Ballad of J. T. Laura 25 Jul 2013 | 12:29 am
I never understood why anyone called Laura Albert a fake writer. When she invented J. T. LeRoy, she formed the basis of an enduring emotional and artistic chemistry with a wide variety of readers. Isn...
Philosophy Weekend: Slavoj Zizek, Marxism's Lovable Lawyer 20 Jul 2013 | 03:26 pm
The philosophy blogosphere (to the extent that such a thing exists) blew up this week after Noam Chomsky opened a can of whoop-butt on Slavoj Zizek, Jacques Lacan and Jacques Derrida. The American phi...
