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John Rawls and the remaking of political philosophyMarina N. Bolotnikova in Harvard Magazine:
      Sean Carroll’s Mindscape Podcast: Lynne Kelly on Memory Palaces, Ancient and ModernSean Carroll in Preposterous Universe:
 Democracy is the planet’s biggest enemyDavid Runciman in Foreign Policy:
 Julian Barbour: Time, Entropy and Quantum Mechanics  Auden’s September 1, 1939Jay Parini at Literary Review:
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John Rawls
Memory takes different forms. Memories can be encoded in the strength of neural connections in our brains, but there’s a sense in which photographs and written records are memories as well. What did people do before such forms of memory even existed?...
The climate crisis is an issue that requires long-term thinking across the generations, yet electoral politics is geared toward responding to immediate grievances. Politicians can talk about taking the long view, but without institutional changes to the way we...
Few political poems strike emotional pay dirt with such consistency and effect as ‘September 1, 1939’. In the sprung rhythm of his three-beat line, with each of his eleven-line stanzas containing one sentence, the language leaps at our hearts and minds....