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John Kaag on the Bloods, the Little-Known Dynasty that Shaped American Life and Philosophy

John Kaag on the Bloods, the Little-Known Dynasty that Shaped American Life and Philosophy

The Author of “American Bloods” in Conversation with James Hibbard

By James Hibbard | June 7, 2024

How Chaos Theory Can Revitalize—and Save—Modern Medicine

How Chaos Theory Can Revitalize—and Save—Modern Medicine

Jennifer Lunden on Alice James, Descartes' Destructive Influence on Medicine, the COVID-19 Pandemic, and More

By Jennifer Lunden | May 10, 2023

Divinely-Inspired Art: John Higgs on William Blake’s Visions of the Sublime

Divinely-Inspired Art: John Higgs on William Blake’s Visions of the Sublime

“Perhaps more than any visionary before or since, Blake had the creative skill to express what he experienced.”

By John Higgs | May 13, 2022

When Gertrude Stein refused to take William James's philosophy final (and still got an A).

When Gertrude Stein refused to take William James's philosophy final (and still got an A).

By Walker Caplan | February 4, 2022

On Robert D. Richardson and the Art of Excavating Other People's Lives

On Robert D. Richardson and the Art of Excavating Other People's Lives

The Biographer Who Crafted Stories of Self-Transformation

By Jonas Gardsby | October 7, 2020

The Renegade Ideas Behind the Rise of American Pragmatism

The Renegade Ideas Behind the Rise of American Pragmatism

William James, Charles Peirce, and the Questions That Roiled Them

By John Kaag and Douglas Anderson | January 9, 2020

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On the Twin Forces of Hope and Skepticism

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