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We’re Still Not Done with Jesus – Adam Gopnik | The New Yorker
03.31.25 Scholars debate whether the Gospel stories preserve ancient memories or are just Greek literature in disguise. But there’s a reason they won’t stay dead and buried.

Americans Haven’t Found a Satisfying Alternative to Religion – Lauren Jackson | The NY Times 04.08.25

The pill and the sexual revolution – Book excerpt

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The best books on Jean-Jacques Rousseau Five Books
06.08.25 Because of his humble origins, JJR fascinates me. Searching for a good biography on him, I stumbled on this excellent interview with philosophy professor and Rousseau scholar Chris Bertram. Here, he chooses the best five books on this complex man’s life and work..
TEASER: “Yes. He claimed that all his mature writings were knitted together by a single insight, an insight that sounds simple, but is actually quite complicated and obscure. The insight—which he says came to him in an epiphany as he was walking to the Chateau Vincennes where his friend, Diderot, was imprisoned—is that man is good by nature and is made wicked by society. It allegedly came to him when he read the newspaper containing the competition that led to the Discourse on the Sciences and Arts. And he claimed that this insight united his contributions across a range of different disciplines. Certainly, it is central to his main works.”

The Origins of Islam: From Mecca to Empire

The Life of Muhammad | BBC Two

A Brief History of Postmodernism: The Fall of Truth

Allan Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind Wikipedia

This Is Marshall McLuhan – The Medium Is The Massage (1967)

The Society of Spectacle | Guy Debord | Plastic Pill

The Philosophy of Guy Debord | Beyond Theory (Mustafa)

Daoism: The Way

The Gist Of Western Philosophy

Every GREEK PHILOSOPHER Explained in 10 Minutes

Every ROMAN PHILOSOPHER Explained in 10 Minutes – Part 1

Every ROMAN PHILOSOPHER Explained – Part 2