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rationality;
Gary Gutting • What Philosophy Can Do
As evolutionary biologist E. O. Wilson states, “No serious scholar would think that human behavior is controlled the way animal instinct is, without the intervention of culture.”
Helen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
vituperation
George Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
Success,
Gary Gutting • What Philosophy Can Do
Nearly half of colonial New Englanders’ wealth would come from sugar grown by West Indian slaves.
Jill Lepore • These Truths
This is not a belief in prophecy but in the seductiveness of cheap
Ta-Nehisi Coates • Between the World and Me
In the early decades of the twentieth century,