Gender Equality

“…the feminist anthropologist Eleanor Leacock’s suggestion [was] that most members of what are called egalitarian societies seem less interested in … More

Egalitarianism

The Oxford social anthropologist E. E. Evans-Pritchard published his classic ethnography of the Sudanese Nuer community (who were held out … More

Bruno Latour, Philosopher on the Social Basis of Scientific Facts, Dies at 75

But a single thread ran through all of his work: the notion that facts do not exist outside of society, … More

Our Universal Civilization by VS Naipaul

A later realization—I suppose I have sensed it most of my life, but I have understood it philosophically only during … More

We are on a path to ‘catastrophic failure’ of our democracy if we don’t change

The degree to which we hate each other has gone up more or less steadily and continuously. You might just … More

What Is Critical Race Theory, and Why Is It Under Attack?

In truth, the divides are not nearly as neat as they may seem. The events of the last decade have … More

Philosopher-Kings

Plato tested the king by stressing the radical difficulty and lifestyle transformation that true philosophy involves: Those who are not … More

On Watching “The Kashmir Files”

On Watching “The Kashmir Files” I watched today The Kashmir Files at Inox in GVK One Mall in Banjara Hills … More

The Dropout

The dropout was not just a hippy-trippy hedonist but a paranoid soul, who feared brainwashing and societal control …but it … More

Free Speech and Academic Freedom

Last summer, my idea was to have that initial discussion about Senator Tom Cotton’s recently published op-ed in the New … More