Media ID: 55385699
Caption:
Media ID: 55376614
Caption:
Media ID: 55372437
Caption:
Media ID: 55370642
Caption:
Media ID: 55368570
Caption:
Caption:
Richard Thaler, left, won the Nobel Prize in economics on Monday in part because he realized people act irrationally. Credit Scott Olson/Getty Images
Caption:
Walter Lippmann in his study. Credit Alfred Eisenstaedt/The LIFE Picture Collection, via Getty Images
Is Radicalism Possible Today?
Are you feeling radical? Do you think that the status quo is fundamentally broken and we have to start thinking about radical change? If so, I’d like to go back a century so that we might learn how radicalism is done. The years around 1917 were a great period of...Caption:
The Crisis of Western Civ
Between 1935 and 1975, Will and Ariel Durant published a series of volumes that together were known as “The Story of Civilization.” They basically told human history (mostly Western history) as an accumulation of great ideas and innovations, from the Egyptians,...Caption:
Moral confrontations have been politicized in today’s world. (Getty Images)
The Strange Persistence of Guilt
In 1981 the philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre opened his book “After Virtue” with a passage that is now famous. Imagine if we lost the theoretical coherence of science. Imagine if we still used scientific words like neutrino and atomic weight, but had no overall...Caption:
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States.