Debates

Announced in 1947 by U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall, The Marshall Plan was a massive program of financial assistance to help rebuild war-torn Europe, restore production, stabilize currencies, …
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This past spring I had the opportunity to see the blockbuster exhibition, Caravaggio 2025, at the Palazzo Barberini in Rome. The Italian painter, known for his use of dramatic lighting …
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In recent years, there has been much talk about the death of capitalism—whether that death is imminent, in process, or something that has already happened. In the latter category, we …
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The mind is not located, but enacted. Let me rephrase: you say hello to your neighbour, not out of kindness, but because he still hasn’t returned the carton of eggs …
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Edward Said ends his introduction to Orientalism with a plea for “unlearning”: “If [Orientalism] stimulates a new kind of dealing with the Orient, indeed if it eliminates the ‘Orient’ and …
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In the movie Blade Runner 2049, we see the bloodstained protagonist, Officer K, gazing at a giant hologram of his AI companion, JOI, who points at him and says, “You …
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One of the central dilemmas that has long haunted modern African philosophy is its derivative posture, its tendency to emerge in response to the overwhelming intellectual dominance of Western philosophy …
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The Need for a New Legal Imagination

The law, as the quintessential institution of order, is increasingly under pressure to rethink its foundations. Beneath the surface of codified statutes and …
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One thing I was certain of growing up was that I, an imposingly tall and broad lad from provincial Cumbria, was different. I knew I was gay. In retrospect, I …
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Measurement breaks most systems. This one stabilized.

“What the mirror reflects depends not on what it shows, but how long you stare.”

This is not a prompt hack. …
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