Is it time for Jordan Peterson to declare his spiritual allegiance?
We Who Wrestle With God is less combative than the author’s earlier work
Philosophers
Friday
Saturday
Is now the most exciting point in human history?
Nexus argues that it is stories which are fundamental to shaping the world
Friday
The troublesome idealism of Simone Weil
The line between sainthood and psychopathology is a fuzzy one
Monday
Will the photo of your lost loved one be replaced by a chatty robot?
Carl Öhman’s The Afterlife of Data is sure to make the most skeptical reader stop and think
Tuesday
What does Christian atheism mean?
He claims to value Christianity’s ‘dissident’ credentials, but his atheist vision of reality rests on assumptions repeatedly challenged by Jesus
Tuesday
The socialist thinker who imagined ‘transforming her body and soul into potatoes’ to feed the poor
May you live in interesting times. The jury is still out on whether that sentiment is a blessing or a curse. There can be no doubt, though, that the heroines of Wolfram Eilenberger’s new book lived in interesting times and then some. Ayn Rand fled the Russian Revolution; Hannah Arendt fled the Nazis; Simone Weil took part in the French general strike of 1933 and fought for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War; Simone de Beauvoir went to bed with Jean-Paul Sartre. Eilenberger calls his foursome The Visionaries. It’s an odd title, but then so was the one he gave his previous book, The Time of the Magicians. There
