There’s a scene early on in the French documentary Salafistes (“Jihadists”) where the camera spans over a throng of people gathered in a village in northern Mali: the crowd is there to watch as the “Islamic… Read More
Tariq Goddard is an English writer and publisher. Along with the late cultural theorist Mark Fisher (1968-2017) and others, he launched Zero Books in 2009, a left-wing publishing imprint dedicated to the idea that… Read More
This is the third in a series of columns on public philosophy by Agnes Callard; read more here. Once an esteemed philosopher was mean to me. He began by dismissing the value of the… Read More
From the water, our first view of the town is a magenta haze on the northern shore. The color is thousands of blurred stems of Chamaenerion angustifolium, or fireweed. Ivan-chai, Alex calls it, in… Read More
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Is Philosophy Fight Club?
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The Guantánamo Spot
Exhibiting detainee art -
The Emotion Police
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Is Public Philosophy Good?
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On the End
All Examined Life
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Servants of the People
On the Ukrainian elections -
The Sound of My Own Voice
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Letter on Denialism
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Lessons of Defeat
Testimonies of the Arab left -
What Was New Atheism?
All Politics
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Salafistes
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Was Socialism Sexy?
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Hudson Yards
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The Help
On Emma and Max and Roma -
This Reminds Me of Home
On new Mexican cinema
All Criticism
