What's so funny about comedy, anyway?

The Mead-Freeman controversy draws to a close, with some answers to who was right and who was wrong. But, in the end, can we ever really understand people from a different culture?

For students of Early Modern culture, the events at the U.S. Capitol on 6 January, 2021, might have called to mind Act III of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.  To stoke confusion ... Read More

It’s not absurd to think the universe might endure forever.

Fanatical thinking is based on a narrative of resentment toward outgroups. Nietzsche offers two ways of changing the script

A deep dive into Friedrich Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra that includes a detailed examination of its main points and ideas.

"The phenomenon of 'continental' philosophy or even 'French theory' is a thoroughly Anglophone one."