Debates

Comparisons to Hitler are always unwarranted—except when they are warranted.

The movement from democracy to fascism requires a series of institutional transformations that involve a corresponding psychological transformation.  “Only connect,” …
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2019. It has been quite a year of environmental wreckage and we are not done yet. September opened with Category 5 Hurricane Dorian flattening the Bahamas. The low lying topography …
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In September of 1895, Booker T. Washington delivered his famous Atlanta Compromise speech heralding self-reliance, industrial education, and social segregation, and the black press immediately hailed him as the first …
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“Brands that succeed will need to act like humans.” This is how one advertising executive summed up the current stage in the evolution of marketing. In particular, brands will seek …
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In 1964, after a visit to an institution in France where disabled men were kept locked up, Jean Vanier (1928-2019) gave up teaching philosophy at the University of Toronto and …
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British philosopher Alfred North Whitehead famously said that the European philosophical tradition “consists of a series of footnotes to Plato”. It is not surprising that an attack on European/Western philosophy …
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Our media are more and more fascinated by the prospect of “post-humanity” opened up by a direct link between our brain and a digital machine. To remind readers, this is …
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Karthick Manoharan attacks my claim that Western metaphysics – particularly, the mind/body dualism and its ancestors and descendants – is intimately connected to white supremacism. He argues that non-Western cultures …
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There is, unfortunately, no such thing as fate. If we accept that quantum mechanics—for all the strangeness associated with it—gives an accurate description of the universe’s basic ontology, we should …
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“Therefore, the Negro nations are, as a rule, submissive to slavery, because (Negroes) have little that is (essentially) human and possess attributes that are quite similar to those of dumb …
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