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• Exit West and Dark at the Crossing: Two Novels of Syrian Refugees
• Stalin’s Biography: For Serious Readers Only
• John Berger, Max Sebald, Teju Cole: International Men of Culture
• The Dictator Novel in the Age of Trump
• J.M. Coetzee: The Master of Cape Town
• Yes, We Tortured Some Folks
• Dr. King’s Final Dream
• The Death Penalty and State-Sanctioned Violence
• What I Read in 2016: 100 Books
• Goodbye to Christmas Truces
• The Espionage Act and the Cult of Secrecy
• The Sellout by Paul Beatty: A Review
• On Racism and Other Bigotries
• The Relative Merits of Human Stupidity
• A Grammar Lesson with F. Scott Fitzgerald
• War is Still a Racket
• The Apotheosis of Bob Dylan: A Hagiography
• Why Does the Universe Exist and Other Things We Cannot Know
• Dispatch from Greece: Myth, Tragedy, Resistance, and Hope
• The Italian Front in WWI: Bad Tactics, Worse Leadership, and Pointless Sacrifice
• Crazy Horse and the Legacy of the American Indian Genocide
• On Plato, Donald Trump, and the Ship of State
• E.O. Wilson on Biology as Politics, Culture, and Human Nature
• The Dangerous Rise and Impending Collapse of Homo Sapiens
• A Soupçon of My Favorite Lexemes
• Republican Senator’s Ill-Conceived Plan to Block Vegetarian Options in the Military
• How to Mock a Dictator (and Get Away With It)
• The Enduring Legacy of Alexander Hamilton
• Not Quite Ready to Die in the Anthropocene
• A Response to A Defense of Moderate, American Socialism
• What I Read in 2015
• It’s Still Not Enough: Comments on the Paris Climate Accord
• Republican Reactionaries and the Road to Fascism
• Are We Still Charlie Hebdo?: The Growing Dissonance between Extremism and Free Speech
• Three Novels of Ancient Rome: Memoirs of Hadrian, Julian, and Count Belisarius
• The Connection Between Walking and Thinking
• Why Black Literature Matters
• Reinhold Messner as Nietzschean Übermensch
• Two Novels by Orhan Pamuk: The White Castle and My Name is Red
• Two Novels by Chimamanda Adichie: Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun
• Philosophy as the Art of Dying
• Jared Diamond’s Collapse: A Review
• Three Historical Poems
• Howard Zinn and the Other Side of American History
• How to Get an Italian Driver’s License
• On History and Herodotus
• What I Read in 2014
• Notes on Analytic Philosophy: Ludwig Wittgenstein
• Notes on Continental Philosophy: Martin Heidegger
• A Poem for Syria
• The Political Importance of the Liberal Arts
• The Techniques of Propaganda
• Karl Popper and The Paradox of Tolerance
• Kemal Atatürk: Dictator, Liberal Reformer, or Both?
• Who was J.P. Morgan?
• Will Durant and the Story of Philosophy
• Defining Philosophy and its Uses
• The Strong Case for Veganism
• Bertrand Russell on Nietzsche
• Bertrand Russell on Plato and Aristotle
• Nikos Kazantzakis the Greek
• Travels with Tiziano Terzani
• Liberal Apologetics, Part Two: Robert Nozick
• Liberal Apologetics, Part One: John Rawls
• Democritus: The Laughing Philosopher
• Two Freedoms of Isaiah Berlin
• Stanley Kubrick’s 2001 Revisited in 2011
• Milan Kundera, From Prague to Paris
• How to End Poverty
• An Invective Against Plastic
• Concerning Income Inequality
• Utilitarian Morality
• Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel
• Kant’s Morality: Summary and Problems
• Peter Brown: Epitome of a Historian
• Ingmar Bergman, the ‘Solemn Swede’
• The New Sack of Rome
• The Quotable Jorge Luis Borges
• God:Big Bang::Chicken:Egg?
• Hedgehogs and Foxes of Isaiah Berlin
• An English Learner’s Lexical and Locutionary List
• Giuseppe Garibaldi: Quintessential Hero
• Don DeLillo’s White Noise: A Review
• Why I Am a Vegetarian
• In Praise of the ‘Mob’: Occupy Wall Street
• The Tree of Terrence Malick
• Also Sprach Zarathustra…