Philosophers in the News

3+ hour, 18+ min ago   (170+ words) The first time the Valkyrie saw a data center, she mistook it for a tomb. It stood beyond a two-lane highway in the flat country where the live oaks grew crooked, and the grass turned silver in winter. White walls....

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (25+ words) The exile is finite, measured in time. But its end will show Hashem's endless and unmeasurable mercy. A moment of abandonment, an eternity of mercy...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (77+ words) “ I must, I want…” poem 🫶🤔 Two concepts. I must, I want... Seemingly easy, seemingly difficult, such frequent words, but what hides deeper within them? Who knows? Who truly knows? I study … “ I must, I want…” poem 🫶🤔 What is the meaning…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (213+ words) If you have ever read one of my stories, essays, or articles, you might have noticed that my topics vary quite a bit. One day I will write about geopolitics or artificial intelligence; the next, it is a fragment of…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (494+ words) CURRENT → September 10–October 17, 2026 ALIVE AT THE END OF THE WORLD September 10–October 17, 2026 For its inaugural exhibition, STOREY GALLERY is ecstatic to present ALIVE AT THE END OF THE WORLD. Bringing together artists across generations and disciplines, the exhibition traces survival…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago   (161+ words) The Haggerty Museum of Art and Marquette’s Department of Theology will host the Theotokos Lecture with Dr. Rita George-Tvrtković on Tuesday, Oct. 27, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. in Sensenbrenner Hall 304. George-Tvrtković, dean and professor of theology at the University…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago   (407+ words) The first is Shakespeare’s specific reference to Wittenberg as Hamlet’s place of study. Wittenberg was home to the University of Wittenberg, founded in 1502, and famously associated with Martin Luther, who began the Protestant Reformation there in 1517. When Claudius mentions: In…...

2+ day, 7+ hour ago   (557+ words) Here he is being funny and silly: The rhino is a homely beast, For human eyes he’s not a feast. Farewell, farewell, you old rhinoceros, I’ll stare at something less prepoceros. I don’t mind eels Except as meals. And the…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (976+ words) A Lifelong Dedication: To the Keepers of My Spirit and Soul This reflection is dedicated to the two women who, across the decades, unknowingly held the compass to my heart. To the one who first awakened my spirit as a…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (476+ words) Scripture and historical reality stand as an unyielding wall against this delusion. They remind us that the human soul possesses a specific, unalterable design that cannot be satisfied by secular substitutes: The Crisis of the Encore—Reclaiming Essence in God’s…...