Issues
Issue 163: August/September 2024
EDITORIAL
The Politics of Freedom
by Rick Lewis
NEWS
News: August/September 2024
Elixir of extended life for mice • Nicholas Rescher mini obituary • Nietzsche exhibition in his childhood home — News reports by Anja Steinbauer
THE POLITICS OF FREEDOM
Freedom & State Intervention
Audren Layeux follows the doomed quest for state emancipation of the self.
Value Pluralism & Plurality of Choice
Christophe Bruchansky looks at maximising the diversity of choice.
The Unfreedom of Liberty
Arianna Marchetti reflects on the limits of political freedom.
On Retributive Punishment
Oliver Waters asks, is retributive justice justified in a modern society?
The Domesticated Foxes of Bastøy
Veronique Aïcha considers the ideology of imprisonment.
ARTICLES
Stoics in Need of Anger Management
David Ashton finds that the Stoic view of anger needs updating.
Authenticity & Absurdity
Paul Doolan tries to tell them apart.
Doughnut Economics
David Howard on restoring balance to an unstable world.
Sholem Asch (1880-1957)
Brad Rappaport considers a very philosophical novelist.
What Philosophy Book Should Be Required Reading?
Our readers give their thoughts, each winning a random book to read.
INTERVIEWS
Brian Leiter
Brian Leiter is Karl N. Llewellyn Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Chicago, and founder and Director of Chicago’s Center for Law, Philosophy & Human Values. Angela Tan chatted with him about Nietzsche.
LETTERS
Letters
Meanings & Misses • AI versus Consciousness • Induction versus Free Will • Love Questions • Driving Ambitions • Critiquing Tallis • Literary Criticism & Life
COLUMNS
On Music
AmirAli Maleki listens to music from an Islamic perspective.
Denis Diderot (1713-1784)
by Terence Green
Philosophers on Bread
by Matt Qvortrup
Atomism & Smallism
Raymond Tallis wonders what the world is made from.
The Epicurean Cure For Life
Massimo Pigliucci takes the philosophy pill.
REVIEWS
Moral Feelings, Moral Reality, & Moral Progress and Analytic Philosophy & Human Life by Thomas Nagel
Jane O’Grady mulls over two new books by Thomas Nagel.
Everything, All the Time, Everywhere by Stuart Jeffries
David McKay enjoys Stuart Jeffries’ lively take on postmodernism.
A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume
Hilarius Bogbinder reviews David Hume’s Treatise of Human Nature.
SpongeBob SquarePants
Richard Snowden-Leak wants to know what the perfect burger tastes like.
CARTOONS
Simon & Finn
by Melissa Felder
Harley Schwadron’s Cartoon (1)
by Harley Schwadron
Sanko and Gibson’s Cartoon
by Sanko and Gibson
Harley Schwadron’s Cartoon (2)
by Harley Schwadron
Transcendental French Freedom
A comic by Corey Mohler about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world.
FICTION
The Black Widow Case
Dave Hangman on a crucial lawsuit taking place the day after tomorrow.
The Unclassifiables
by Yahia Lababidi