Philosophy Series: Stoicism for Revolutionaries

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The Ethics of Ambiguity: Simone de Beauvoir, Existentialism, and Revolutionary Politics

Breht and Alyson explore Simone de Beauvoir's The Ethics of Ambiguity, a foundational work of existentialist ethics that asks a deceptively difficult question: if there is no God, no predetermined human purpose, and no absolute moral order written into the universe, why shouldn't ...  Show more

Coming to America: From Mao's China to American Suburbia

Through one family's journey from socialist China to the United States, we explore the gulf between the mythology of the American Dream and the realities of American capitalism. From the Cultural Revolution and Voice of America to racial and class hierarchies, liberal academia, a ...  Show more

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