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The Dancer Upstairs

John Malkovich has made a clever movie about the hunt for a fat, cardigan-wearing philosophy professor with blood on his hands. Rich Guilfoyle watches The Dancer Upstairs.
[Issue 43: October/November 2003: Films]

Dear Socrates

Having returned from the turn of the Fourth Century B.C. to the turn of the Twenty-First A.D., Socrates has eagerly signed on as a Philosophy Now columnist so that he may continue to carry out his divinely-inspired dialogic mission.
[Issue 42: July/August 2003: Dear Socrates]

Sports and Deviant Behavior

Guest editor Tim Delaney introduces our Sports issue and explains why studying the misdemeanors of athletes can throw light on the problems the rest of us face.
[Issue 41: May/June 2003: Philosophy and Sport]

John Rawls: Towards a Just World Order by Patrick Hayden

The late John Rawls was a giant of political philosophy; Abdelkader Aoudjit peruses Patrick Hayden’s study of his ideas.
[Issue 40: March/April 2003: Books]

The Distribution of Power

Lars Elgstam argues for direct democracy and decentralization.
[Issue 40: March/April 2003: Articles]

Omissions & Terrorism

Ted Honderich explains why he thinks that we in the West are partly to blame for the terrorist attacks on September 11.
[Issue 39: December 2002 / January 2003: Articles]

Chomsky on Global Myths and Realities

We live in the era of the global free market. Or do we? And now that the Cold War is over, why are the arms manufacturers still looking so prosperous? Political theorist Noam Chomsky thinks he knows why, as Mike Fuller explains.
[Issue 39: December 2002 / January 2003: Business]

Return to Iron Mountain

David Limond takes a critical look at arguments in support of war.
[Issue 37: August/September 2002: War]

Top Marx?

Karen Adler reports on the ‘Return(s) to Marx’ conference at the Tate Modern in London.
[Issue 37: August/September 2002: Articles]

Simone Weil by Francine du Plessix Gray

When the brilliant, tragic Simone Weil died in 1943, she was only 34, but her ideas still inspire. Martin Andic ponders a new biography by Francine du Plessix Gray.
[Issue 35: March/April 2002: Books]