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February 4, 2015
7:30 - 9:30
Absolute Values
Published this summer by Harvard University Press but largely written, presumably, during the Biden administration, Dabhoiwala’s skeptical history of Anglosphere—especially U.S.—speech libertarianism is veined throughout…
Begin the World Over Again
I was once told that I was in an abusive relationship with the Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team. It is true that they have…
Mano a Mano
Aristotle, a student of a wrestler named Plato, taught that eudaimonia, usually translated as “happiness” or “the good life,” requires both intellectual and moral virtues.…
A panel discussion presented by The Point at n+1 headquarters in Brooklyn.
Nearly every day we are told that our privacy is under some fresh attack. But are we entering a new and treacherous phase in our relationship with privacy, or should we welcome, as some have recommended, a new “era of transparency?” Join ACLU attorney (and Edward Snowden’s lawyer) Ben Wizner, philosopher Michael P. Lynch, the Nation’s Sarah Leonard, the Guardian Project’s Harlo Holmes and artist Ingrid Burrington for a discussion of such questions in connection with The Point’s Issue 9 symposium, What is Privacy For? RSVP & more info here.