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Denisons International Studies program welcomes Raef Zreik presenting "The Palestinian Question as a Jewish Question" at 4:30 p.m. on April 6.

When it comes to applying these lessons to agricultural history in Britain or elsewhere with a view to creating a just and renewable agrarian future, what I take from Sahlins’s thought is almost the opposite of what a superficial reading of ‘The original affluent society’ might suggest.

Our bread can get stale, dry, mouldy or be eaten by other creatures such as rats. In order to make tea, we need to collect the leaves, dry them and add “hot” water to extract flavour and some “nutrients”. Tea does not do well in cold water. We boil the billy.

As of this moment, there is no emerging war on the ground, alleged "aggression” or dynamic syntax of compelling move to unleash war either by Russia against

Transcendentalism was a 19th century philosophical movement with adherents like Thoreau, Emerson and Fuller, based on the idea that people had divine truth within them.

Last week, I discussed two articles criticizing the national conservative movement (if its fair to call it that) and common good originalism. The two articles appear in the current issue of The New Criterion, which is devoted in large part to a debate on the subject. In this post, I want to present two articles from the other side of the debate. They respond to the lead piece, by Kim

Two new books show how modern technologies are reshaping humanity.

Crispin Sartwell: Humans are animals. We need to get over it. It’s astonishing how relentlessly Western philosophy has strained to prove we are not squirrels. (Tim Enthoven | The New York Times) Humans Are Animals. Let’s Get Over It. By Crispin Sartwell | The New York Times   | Feb. 28, 2021, 3:00 p.m. | Updated: 4:04 p.m. If one were to read through the prefaces and first paragraphs of the canonical works of Western philosophy, one might assume the discipline’s primary question to b...

Irfan Ahmad on Islam today If Immanuel Kant was the “Papa Enlightenment Subject,” a phrase used by anthropologist William Mazzarella, literary critic Edward Said was arguably a loyal child of that Enlightenment. Credited with coining secular criticism, Said also viewed himself as a secular critic. Notably, the introduction and conclusion to his The World, The Text and the Critic are titled respectively as “Secular Criticism” and “Religious Criticism.”  Lamenting that the contempor...

Regarding the use of vaccines developed using cells from aborted human persons By On 21 December 2020, Reuters reported on a document issued by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith announcing that the Vatican had signed off on the use of vaccines “even if their production employed cell lines drawn from tissues of aborted fetuses.”[1] Though the CDF document stresses that it strongly desires the use of “ethically acceptable” vaccines, the document also emphasizes that the common ...