In his teisho, David Loy leads us through a consideration of the stories that many of the world’s religions tell. They are stories which give priority to a world separate from this one, held out as [...] Read more

Exploring the history of the Amazon and its peoples: an interview with John Hemming Dr. John Hemming is a legendary author and historian who has spent the past six decades documenting the history of [...] Read more

Martha C. Nussbaum’s Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions advances a radical claim: emotions are not irrational eruptions that cloud judgment but cognitively rich appraisals [...] Read more

I. Marcuse became a pop figure, the philosopher of the 60s. He expressed a key contradiction in modernity. Modernity is "enlightenment", the end of myth and dogma, the power of reason; but it is also [...] Read more

I. The task of creating a life with the "self under siege" to the degree I have argued may seem impossible. At the very least, it calls for what Baudrillard calls "fatal strategies". So I begin this [...] Read more

Edward Bernays’ Propaganda (1928) reads today like the blueprint for a media age he could scarcely imagine. In brisk, confident prose, Bernays argues that modern democracies cannot function without [...] Read more

Academy of Ideas Why Technology is Enslaving and Dehumanizing Us [...] Read more

Academy of Ideas Why Stupid People are Destroying Society - The Laws of Human Stupidity [...] Read more

Edward Bernays’ Propaganda (1928) [...] Read more

We live in a world saturated with images, representations, and simulations. But what happens when these copies and imitations become more real to us than the original? This is the essence of the [...] Read more