Oct 11, 2024
Maria Balaska.
Anxiety and wonder: On being human
Description
At times, we find ourselves unexpectedly immersed in a mood that
lacks any clear object or identifiable cause. These uncanny moments
tend to be hastily dismissed as inconsequential, left without
explanation. Maria Balaska examines two such cases: wonder...
Oct 11, 2024
Our third talk with Deirdre Nansen McCloskey. Today, we talk with her about two working papers on liberalism.
May 20, 2024
Sharon Patricia Holland
an other
In an other, Sharon Patricia Holland offers a new theorization of the human animal/divide by shifting focus from distinction toward relation in ways that acknowledge that humans are also animals. Holland centers ethical commitments over ontological concerns to spotlight those moments...
May 4, 2024
Stephanie Li
Ugly White People: Writing Whiteness in Contemporary America
White Americans are confronting their whiteness more than ever before, with political and social shifts ushering in a newfound racial awareness. And with white people increasingly seeing themselves as distinctly racialized (not simply as American...
Apr 26, 2024