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"Polarization and Talking Across Difference": Elizabeth Anderson in conversation with Alexis Papazoglou (Keywords: Democracy; Populism; Reparations; Pragmatism; John Dewey; Susan Neiman)

Elizabeth Anderson and Alexis Papazoglou

14 min read

"Polarization and Talking Across Difference": Elizabeth Anderson in conversation with Alexis Papazoglou (Keywords: Democracy; Populism; Reparations; Pragmatism; John Dewey; Susan Neiman)

"Everything has been sorted and segregated so that people of different political parties have no opportunities to engage one another."

Eva Meijer

17 min read

Essays

"Deep Listening and Democracy: Political Listening to Fellow Citizens and Other Beings": Eva Meijer

"Who can speak is a fundamental political question – both in the meaning of who is allowed to speak, and who is seen as a speaking being."

Jeff Sebo

9 min read

The New Basics

"Animal": An Essay by Jeff Sebo (Keywords: Ethics; Anthropocene; Rights; Planet; Pandemic)

"The idea that all humans should have rights is good, but the idea that only humans should have rights is bad."

Christopher Belshaw

12 min read

Essays

"What is the Point of Wild Animals?" by Christopher Belshaw (Keywords: Ethics; death; Personhood)

"Contrary to widespread thinking, it is farm animals rather than those left to fend for themselves in the wild that have the better lives."

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Published since 1923

THE PHILOSOPHER

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