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  • 6 May 2026
    Sandrine Bergès

    Why Read Wollstonecraft Today?

    I’ve written about Wollstonecraft a lot, in the last fifteen years: books, articles, edited volumes. I started writing about her the minute I found out about her. And I found out about her because a male colleague suggested we add her Vindication of the Rights of Woman to our intro to social and political philosophy […]

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  • 6 May 2026
    Carl B. Sachs

    Sellars Today: How the Universe Discovered Itself

    As a pre-teen, I was fascinated with how cosmological and biological evolution led to humanity. Every new book checked out from the library led me to rewrite increasingly long, detailed lists of every step along the way. One day as I was writing the newest one, my father suggested that I call my list “How […]

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  • 6 May 2026
    Andrew Brenner

    Making Progress on the Mystery of Existence

    The question of why there is something rather than nothing is supposed to be one of those “big” timeless topics in philosophy. And yet surprisingly few full-length books are published on the topic. Perhaps this is because it has a reputation for being such a difficult and mind-boggling question. But I think that we can […]

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  • 4 May 2026
    Eberhard Kienle

    States under Stress

    For several decades ‘failed‘ or ‘fragile’ states and their ‘collapse’ have concerned – if not obsessed – governments, intergovernmental organizations, internationally active NGOs, the media, the broader public and academic writing. Often poorly defined, the label has been stuck on a growing number of entities that did not or no longer correspond to dominant definitions […]

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  • 30 Apr 2026
    Christine Straehle, Costanza Porro

    Vulnerability and Relational Equality

    Many people these days talk about vulnerability:  children, the elderly, and those who are poor are all described as vulnerable. During the pandemic, protecting the vulnerable became the guiding principle of public health policy which has translated into every practices. But what exactly is vulnerability and why should we care about it? Another subject many […]

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  • 30 Apr 2026
    Cover of American Factions: How the U.S. Constitution Can End Extreme Partisanship by James L. Huffman
    James L. Huffman

    How the U.S. Constitution Can End Extreme Partisanship

    American politics is characterized by extreme partisanship and government stalemate.  The two dominant political parties marshal reliably partisan interest groups with the objective of controlling both houses of Congress and the Presidency. Embracing the simplistic idea that the majority rules, the prevailing party then governs with little regard for the interests of the minority party […]

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  • 28 Apr 2026
    Tiffany Stern

    Ballad Business: Selling Early Modern Theatre

    A trip to the theatre, these days, often involves additional purchase. Theatre merchandise (‘merch’) is sold in a related shop or kiosk, so that attending a performance might involve also buying a t-shirt, a mug, a toy, a CD. Some canny productions also ‘product place’ the merch in the production itself, meaning that material goods […]

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  • 27 Apr 2026
    Gregory J. Privitera, James J. Gillespie

    Why “More Doctors” Won’t Fix the Provider Shortage

    When we hear that the United States is facing a health care provider shortage, the most common response is: We need more doctors. It sounds intuitive. When it seems like we don’t have enough doctors, the natural response is to try to produce more of them: add medical school seats, expand residency programs, and grow the physician pipeline.

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