Mr Trump would preside over four years of extreme political polarization, demagoguery and broadly normalised contempt for immigrants at home. However, anyone who ponders how these gravity-defining ...

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But in “Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life,” Agnes Callard illustrates how philosophy isn't just a spectator sport. It requires engaging with one another and arguing with each ...

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Book Review: 'Open Socrates' Shows Why Philosophy Isn't a Spectator Sport During a time when many are complaining about divisiveness in politics and in society, it seems counterintuitive for a ...

“We in [the] PRO [party] are always going to be on the side of those who work to end populism, demagoguery and the lack of transparency,” affirmed former president Macri in a post on his X account on ...

Citizen Kane, Orson Welles’ masterpiece is regularly cited as the greatest film ever made. The film and tv obsession with media moguls hasn’t really ceased, with Jesse Armstrong’s Succession series – ...

Not so when you’re looking into the abyss and discussing the prospects for an afterlife (as Socrates did in his last moments) with friends who love you. Instead of the four horsemen of today’s ...

In times of economic distress, demagoguery thrives, and citizens generally look to the state for more spending and more safety nets. Milei offered them the opposite. This is another reason why ...

Review of Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life. By Agnes Callard. W.W. Norton & Company. 405 pp. $35. Many know that Socrates declared that “the unexamined life is not worth living.” ...