Peter Singer's endorsement of zoophilia is a manifestation of a post-Christian view of humanity.
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Israel-based progressive intellectuals and peace activists call for a “return to a politics based on humanistic and universal principles”
Several dozen Israeli-based academic progressives and peace activists have signed this letter. They are correct to suggest that the usual identity politics we often hear coming out of colleges and universities seem hollow in the wake of October 7, 2023....
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What is a person?
Over at Foreign Policy, Justin Smith asks the same question. Here is a taste: Outside of the context of drama, in the Roman Republic, personhood was commonly extended to municipalities and voluntary associations. This entailed, among other things, that such...
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McClay: “a human person is a historical being, in whom the past remains immanent in the present”
“The Evening of Life” is the theme of the Fall issue of The Hedgehog Review.  Wilfred McClay‘s piece on aging is definitely worth reading. Here is a taste of “Being There“: Imagine yourself as a young man, perhaps in late adolescence or...
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Storytelling and Humanities Funding
Over at the Huffington Post, Patrick Hicks, the Writer-in-Residence at Augustana College, reminds us of the importance of story as it relates to the funding of the humanities. Here is a taste: As far as we know, human beings are...
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Do Universities “Police the Imagination?”
Madison Smartt Bell, an English professor at Goucher College, a writer, and a finalist for the National Book Award, begins his Chronicle of Higher Education essay “Policing the Imagination” with this story: In the latest issue of Write, a publication of the...
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Reader Feedback: Coates on Historians and Hope
Yesterday our “quote of the day” came from Ta-Nehesi Coates’s reflections on historians and hope.Here is the quote I chose:.. I think that a writer wedded to “hope” is ultimately divorced from “truth.” Two creeds can’t occupy the same place...
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