“Where once it was occasionally possible to opt out of ‘reality’ (by taking drugs, say), it is now increasingly necessary to think about how to opt in to it" ... more »
Is Jonathan Israel's decadeas-long argument for the importance of Spinoza the work of a prophet or a zealot?... more »
The impoverishment of our interracial imagination: Social events are now marred by white anti-racists seeking “uncomfortable conversations”... more »