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Hannah Arendt

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Hannah Arendt and Stockholm Syndrome

Will Spencer talked with John West about his book on the coopting of Christian leaders. Read More ›
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Does Science Disprove Free Will? A Physicist Says No

Marcelo Gleiser notes that the mind is not a solar system with strict deterministic laws. Read More ›
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Photo: Portland riot, by Tedder / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0).

Darwinism Paved the Way to Our Perilous Cultural Moment

The year so far has delivered a stunning lesson in the fragility of freedom and of civilization. Read More ›
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How Darwin Shaped the Young Joseph Stalin

Jonathan Wells notes that a figure in the totalitarian tradition was influenced by evolution from a very early age. Read More ›
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Totalitarianism Is Darwinism Applied to Politics

Atomization is the radical isolation of each individual from every other individual. Atomization breaks the bonds that hold society in its traditional shape. Read More ›
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Darwinism, Totalitarianism, and the Lockdown

Hannah Arendt was the leading philosopher of totalitarianism in the 20th century. She explicitly links totalitarian ideology to Darwinism. Read More ›
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An Artist Examines Evolution

We may dispute what Darwin felt or thought in the privacy of his study — but the bulk of his writings fall clearly into advocating for one perspective: naturalism. Read More ›
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Gelernter: Berlinski’s Human Nature Is “Number One” Book I’d Recommend to Yale Students

“Berlinski is a modern Hannah Arendt, but deeper, more illuminating, and wittier (i.e., smarter).” Read More ›
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Neuroscientist Michael Egnor, the Philosophical Physician, on Science and the Soul

Try to read his essay through to the end without getting chills. Read More ›
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Karl Marx at 200 — Darwinism & Communism

The men who translated Marxism into practical political terms in the form of Soviet terror were evolutionary thinkers. Read More ›

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