Author: Julian Baggini / Source: Big Think Our culture has its own mistaken assumption: that the individual is an autonomous human intellect independent from the social environment. Admiring the great thinkers of the past has become morally hazardous. Praise Immanuel Kant, and you might be

Author: Kevin Dickinson / Source: Big Think Many readers buy books with every intention of reading them only to let them linger on the shelf. Statistician Nassim Nicholas Taleb believes surrounding ourselves with unread books enriches our lives as they remind us of all we don’t know. The

Authored by Finian Cunningham via The Strategic Culture Foundation, In the wake of violent protests involving white supremacists and Neo-Nazis in the US, the Pentagon’s top military brass issued unprecedented condemnations of «racists and extremists». One veterans spokesman said: «Anyone waving a

Authored by Finian Cunningham via The Strategic Culture Foundation, After decades of delaying, the United Nations finally released archives from the Second World War-era war crimes commission investigating the Nazi Holocaust. The source of those archives on Nazi war crimes were Western