Doing Nothing Has Never Been More Important
How the under-appreciated art of idleness can transform the world
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The Philosopher Helping Countries Protect Minority Rights
From Nepal to Bolivia, Will Kymlicka is reshaping global policy
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Why You Need to Think for Yourself
Faced with increasing pressure to box in our imaginations, we can still dream up a better world
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How to Live with Death
Even if our odds of dying at any given moment are low, we can’t escape the risks underlying our existence
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Why Nostalgia Is Our New Normal
For hundreds of years, doctors thought nostalgia was a disease. Now, it’s a name for our modern condition
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I Was a Bank Robber Until I Read Kant
The one thing that criminals and philosophers share is a sense of being an outsider
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Philosopher Up to Bat
Baseball is the sport that brings jocks and nerds together
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Burning Man
Books discussed in this essay An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World by Pankaj Mishra Farrar, Strauss & Giroux 320 pp., $36 Buddha by Karen Armstrong Penguin 205 …
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