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Fighting Fire with Water: From the Combahee River Collective to the Rainbow Coalition: A Case for Materialist Solidarity. By A. J. Horn in Simplifying Socialism.
The Joy of “Bracketing”: You think studying philosophy is too hard? You’re only kinda wrong! By James Casey in Pavement Philosophy.
Force and the concept of primitive accumulation: Marx’s reading of William Thompson, Part 1. By Kevin Thomas in Marx and Friends.
You are what you do: My latest essay for Aeon magazine on what Sartre got right and wrong about freedom and anguish. By Skye Cleary in Skye Cleary.
On Beauvoir and Being Authentic: A Conversation with Skye Cleary: A recording from Megan Burke’s live video. By Megan Burke in Megan Burke, PhD.
The Unofficial History of America: is not a story of rugged individualism and heroic sacrifice in pursuit of a dream, but a story of democracy derailed, a revolutionary spirit suppressed, and a once-proud people reduced to servitude. By Adbusters in Adbusters.
The Tyranny of Thinness — Tuesday Teaser: Simone de Beauvoir, Self-Objectification, and Feminine Slenderness. By Céline Leboeuf in Why Philosophy?.
Unemployment Exists to Frighten You: The 11-page paper that politicians refuse to cite. By Critical Perspectives in Critical Perspectives @UrbanDividend.
Recognition: Hegel, Sartre, Beauvoir, and Fanon: On the social dynamics of selfhood and identity. By Ellie Anderson in Intimate Relationships.
178. Beauty with Heather Widdows: Listen to Ellie and David chat with philosopher Heather Widdows in episode 178 of overthink! By Overthink Podcast in Overthink Podcast.
What I know about: longing.: Dispatches from the interior world. By Helen Higgins in Helen Higgins.
America is a Way to See: On the photography of Robert Frank. By School of Radical Attention in The Empty Cup.
How and why to de-Google your life: Plus, a data center rebellion erupts in Canada, Gen Z says it’s sexy to be a Luddite, and the push to paint anti-tech activists as extremists. This is Episode 2 of the BITM show with guest Paris Marx. By Brian Merchant in Blood in the Machine.
Those in Charge Have No Plan: either we create our own plans or we follow them to our graves. By Peter Gelderloos in Surviving Leviathan with Peter Gelderloos.
The Captured Exception: How the State Learned to Govern AI by Prerogative Instead of Law. By The Structural Lens in The Structural Lens.
Magazine Non Grata: Call for Submissions (Jul-Dec 2026): What we’re looking for through the second half of the year. By Magazine Non Grata and contributors in Non Grata.
Desire: Part I — Imagination: On imagined lives & dating as armchair travel. By Sophie Lalani in The Existentialist.
A Mattering Guide to Love and Sex: Not Plato’s madness, but a quiet conspiracy. By Rebecca Newberger Goldstein in The Mattering Map.
What is a peer-reviewed journal article?: A guide for university students, plus some advice about how to select articles as sources. By Bill Vanderburgh in Philosophy for the Public Good.
The Scrapbook — No. 27: Wine, Medieval Execution and Gothic Architecture. By The Humanities Library in The Humanities Library.
The People Are Not Enough: A Reply to Geese Magazine on Populism, Marxism, and Socialist Strategy. By Daniel Tutt in Daniel’s Journal.
Understanding Dehumanization, Part 3 - ‘Know Thyself’ to Resist: A Bette Dangerous Podcast Series with David Livingstone Smith, Ep96: In Part 3 of my new podcast series on understanding dehumanization with David Livingstone Smith we focus how to resist dehumanizing others by knowing yourself. By David Livingstone Smith in Dehumanization Matters.
On the Production and Dissemination of Knowledge in the AI Era: Is AI (and AI Companies) Turning Knowledge into a Private Good? By Cyril Hédoin in The Archimedean Point.
Why are politicians so rubbish?: Easy answers and sweet falsehoods are bad for everyone. By Jonny Thomson and Big Think in Mini Philosophy.
R.S.I. (Seminar XXII), Episode 7. By Samuel McCormick in Lectures on Lacan.
Obsessions with Female Purity: The Problem of Royal Saintly Widows: Book Club | June 2026 | Part Three. By Holly A Brown in Medieval Musings.
Holding America to its own standards (and surfacing a couple more): Staying in it with a country that falls short. By Erica Lucast Stonestreet in Humaning is Hard, but Philosophy Can Help.
BOOK CLUBS
July Book Club - The Experience Society: Consumer Capitalism Rebooted : Introduction. By Theory Gang in Theory Gang.
Our next book: Pattern Recognition by William Gibson. By Jared Henderson in Commonplace Philosophy.
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