Richard Bradley and Liam Kofi Bright take a close look at models that inform policy makers.
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What Satire Can Do For Us: Coping Not Curing
Dieter Declercq draws on Nietzsche, Hume, and Pascal to explain how satire addresses the difficulties of changing the world.
Da 5 Bloods: a movie review
Charles Peterson reviews Da 5 Bloods, directed by Spike Lee, starring Delroy Lindo, Jonathan Majors, and Clarke Peters.
Not Thinking About the Worst
Serving on a Covid-19 ethics group, Richard Holton reflects on the morality of allocating scarce ventilators.
I Think, Therefore I Slam
Douglas Edwards explores what pro wrestling can tell us about philosophy.
The Venn Diagram from Hell
Kathleen Dean Moore and Michael Paul Nelson consider ethics at the intersection of climate chaos, ecosystem collapse, and coronavirus.
Artificial You: AI and the Future of Your Mind, by Susan Schneider: a review
Review by Ken Daley.
The Otherlife
Jean Kazez thinks through the pandemic.
Camus’ The Plague: a review
Margaret Betz reviews Camus’ classic.
Capitalism After Covid
Julian Friedland shows how the pandemic might inspire a more virtuous economy.
Winning the Battle, Losing the War
Ryan Jenkins shows how blowback against apparently successful technologies can render them counterproductive.
Philosophy, In a Sense
Constantine Sandis on doing nothing in the time of covid-19.