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Overlooked Philosophy
Philosophy in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds: A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, Vol. II by Peter Adamson oxford university press, 428 pages Peter Adamson’s Philosophy in the...
Neoliberal Education
With the publication of Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to A Meaningful Life, William Deresiewicz’s sober assessment of contemporary higher education was both praised...
The Elect and the Accursed
Princeton University at the dawn of the twentieth century is a place marked by chauvinism, racism, anti-Semitism and anti-Catholicism (that “old and much feared enemy,”) as presented in Joyce...