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How To Do Things Without Words

Silence as the power of accountability

June 28, 2018 • by Jeremy Bendik-Keymer

A jarring phenomenon of the Trump presidency is that words are cheaper than they’ve ever been in my half-century-long life. Yet behind this cheapness, silences appear, difficult and important to feel. There is the silence of an estimated 4,645 deaths in Puerto Rico as a result of Hurricane Maria. There’s the ...

On Leaping Into Love

Night of Philosophy Love Symposium

March 28, 2018 • by Skye C. Cleary

Remember the last time we had this dinner party, Aristophanes got drunk and went on a rant about soulmates? Here we are -- almost 2,500 years later -- and people still believe in this myth. Everyone seems to have forgotten that Aristophanes was joking! When we fall in love, it does feel ...

The Banality of Woody

Reviewing Irrational Man (2015) and Cafe Society (2016)

November 15, 2016 • by Laura Nelson

Irrational Man, a film by Woody Allen (2015) Café Society, a film by Woody Allen (2016) (Caution: mild spoiler alerts) “You’re a comedian. You want to do mankind a real service? Tell funnier jokes”, says the space alien in Woody Allen’s Stardust Memories (1980), which still, despite its ambitions, falls into the category ...