The book pirates of 18th-century France devised a strategy: Republish works by Voltaire. It was “an enterprise of solid gold”
Despite Ostervald’s efforts to make his sales talk sound attractive, it revealed that he had misled…
Ripstein Wins Killam Prize
The Killam Prizes were first awarded in 1981. Philosophers who have won the prize over the…
Philosophy Profs Making Introductory Philosophy Videos for Students & the Public
Professor Linehan’s channel is Let’s Get Logical. It covers various matters relating to logic, of course, as…
Dan-el Padilla Peralta is one of the most prominent classicists of his generation. He’s not sure the field should exist
How these two old civilizations became central to American intellectual life is a story that begins…
Philosophy on Clubhouse
The app hosts an array of audio-only conversations which users can host, participate in, or just…
Did Frege Plagiarize the Stoics?
First, it is vastly more likely that Frege obtained his knowledge of Stoic logic from one…
Did E.E. Cummings’s relationship with a French prostitute really have a serious effect on his work?
Rosenblitt, who has written previously on Cummings’s debt to classical literature, isn’t trying to displace Kennedy…
Silvia Foti’s grandfather is a national hero in Lithuania. He also worked with the Nazis to kill Jews. His story has echoes across Eastern Europe
He did stand up to the Nazis, not by saving Jews but by trying to stymie…
Waheed Hussain (1972-2020)
Waheed Hussain, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, has died. Professor Hussain joined…
The Decades-Old Classic That Became the Ultimate Pandemic Poem
Complement with Bishop on why everyone should experience at least one long period of solitude in…
Mass, Energy, and How Literature Transforms the Dead Weight of Being: Jeanette Winterson on Why We Read
And later, when I had left home at sixteen and was living in a Mini, I…
Murmuration: A Stunning Animated Poem About Our Connection to Nature and to Each Other
2*At the midnight of the yearutter darknessa million compasses failand the starlings don’t comeempty skyno swallows,…
Confucius on Good Government, the 6 Steps to a Harmonious Society, and Self-Discipline as the Key to Democracy
Two and a half millennia before Leonard Cohen wrote in his timeless and tender ode to…
The Boy Whose Head Was Filled with Stars: The Inspiring Illustrated Story of How Edwin Hubble Revolutionized Our Understanding of the Universe
It is there, looking through the colossal instrument night after cold night, that Hubble becomes obsessed…
Einstein on the Political Power of Art
When he returned to New York with a wounded body and a scarred soul, he spent…
Dotspotting Expressionist Science: What the Mysterious Color-Markings on Storm Drains Have to Do with Rachel Carson’s Legacy and the War on a Deadly Virus
They are science. They are war paint on humanity’s countenance as we combat our great eternal…
Loops, the Limits of Language, the Paradoxical Loneliness of “I Love You,” and What Keeps Love Alive
With an eye to the limitation of these words — of all words — as “the…
The Blue Hour: A Stunning Illustrated Celebration of Nature’s Rarest Color
The day ends.The night falls.And in between…there is the blue hour. But despite Earth’s distinction as…
Dignity, Daring, and Disability: The Pioneering Queer Composer and Defiant Genius Ethel Smyth on Making Music While Going Deaf
Look dearest Ethel…. Please live 50 years at least; for now I’ve formed this limpet childish…
Conchology, or, the Natural History of Shells: Stunning 19th-Century Illustrations from the World’s First Pictorial Encyclopedia of Mollusks
The study of Shells, or testaceous animals, is a branch of natural history which, although not…
Why We Like What We Like: Poet and Philosopher George Santayana on the Formation and Confirmation of Our Standards and Sensibilities
In the 1950s, Rai Weiss fell in love with a pianist, fell in love with his…
Child of Glass: A Soulful Italian Illustrated Meditation on How to Live with Our Human Fragility
As word of this living marvel spreads throughout the village and beyond, people make pilgrimages from…
Toni Morrison on the Body as an Instrument of Joy, Sanity, and Self-Love
Thinking lately about what it means to have the right heart, which intimates the question of…
The Snail with the Right Heart: A True Story
The Snail with the Right Heart, out on February 2, came alive thanks to the invaluable…
Featured Event: ‘QUEST’ film screening with Company One and ZUMIX
For more conversation starters, visit QUEST‘s complete discussion guide. The film includes remarks from President Obama…
PRESS RELEASE: Hasidic Women Upend Tradition by Forming An All-Female EMT Corps in ‘93QUEEN,’ Airing September 17, 2018 on POV
Credits: Director: Paula Eiselt; Producers: Paula Eiselt and Heidi Reinberg; Editors: Sunita Prasad and Rebecca Laks; Music: Laura Karpman; Executive Producer:…
PRESS RELEASE: Voices of the Sea | Contradictions of Love and Freedom in Cuban Love Story
Since 1994, POV Spark has driven new storytelling initiatives and interactive production for POV. The department…
Critical Acclaim for ‘Whose Streets?’
“Whose Streets?” looks beyond the media narrative to offer what Davis has called “black people seeing…
Featured Event: ‘Whose Streets?’ Screening and Discussion at St. Louis’ Public Media Commons
Where: Public Media Commons, 3653 Olive Street, St. Louis, MO 63108 Black Lives Matter is regarded…