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For Lachlan Murdoch, this moment has been a long time coming. Assuming, of course, that his moment has actually arrived.

Lachlan will become the chair of News Corp. while remaining chief executive and chair at Fox Corp., the parent of Fox News Channel.

For Lachlan Murdoch, this moment has been a long time coming. On Thursday, his father Rupert Murdoch announced that in November he'll step down as the head of his two media companies: News Corp. and Fox Corp.

Born in 1632 in the Dutch Republic, the rationalist philosopher Baruch Spinoza was one of the great fathers of Enlightenment thinking. As Hamid Alizadeh explains, Spinoza’s philosophy – which contained a materialist and atheistic kernel  – represented a revolutionary challenge to the authority of both Church and state.

Media heir Lachlan Murdoch, Rupert's third child and oldest son, jointly decided to fire Tucker Carlson from Fox News.

February’s Review of the Month confronts the new irrationalism and its reactionary tendencies, which find their roots in troubling philosophical and historical…

I really wish this was some sort of joke. 

Philosopher argues that using braindead people as 'whole body gestational' surrogates should be an option for anyone who wishes to avoid the risks and burdens of pregnancy.

On the degradation of universal citizenship.

My retirement wish was: “To teach a little, paint a little, travel a little write a little, and love a little," and this is exactly how I accomplished that.