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Richard Dawkins's Nonsense Makes Me Miss the Not-Quite-New Atheism of Quentin Smith
Instead of being about politicized anti-theism as a front in the culture war, perhaps public atheism could have been about...atheism.
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Marx Class Starting on May 12th
Never got through Capital? Here's your chance!
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March 2024

Formal and Dialectical Logic
Is "dialectical logic" a competing theory of the same subject as the kind of "logic" that's taught in university textbooks?
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Marx & Rawls vs. Nozick & the "Land Back" Left
Is justice about turning back the clock to some past distribution of property or creating a more equal society going forward?
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Peter Hitchens vs. Christopher Hitchens: Can Civilization Survive Without God?
In late 2010, the Hitchens brothers debated the link between "civilization" and belief in God.
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Susan Wolf's Critique of Moral Saints
In a classic paper, Susan Wolf makes a compelling case against the ideal of moral saintliness. If she's right, how does that fit with the moral urgency…
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Full Automated Palestinian Luxury Communism from the River to the Sea?
Some thoughts on the uses and limits of maximalist demands.
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February 2024

John Stuart Mill on Justice and Utility
Let's take a closer look at Mill's case against non-utilitarian standards of justice.
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Why Ayn Rand Would Have Hated Ari Aster's "Midsommar"
it turns out that morality and self-fulfillment are two things, not one thing.
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Tim Pool vs. Karl Marx on Personal and Productive Property
Tim Pool is confused.
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Bodily Autonomy Has Nothing To Do With "Self-Ownership"
Also, why are libertarians so fixated on rape analogies?
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What Marx's Materialism Isn't
Even many people who think of themselves as Marxists are confused by what "material" means in the context of Marx's "materialism" and hence about the…
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