Daily Archives: March 30, 2020

Aesthetics & Politics

Nick Whitaker: How do you think about aesthetics in political theory? Jonah Bennett: I think aesthetics is one of the more important points in political theory because it’s one of the most immediately legible and visceral. There’s certainly the more … Continue reading

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Not Born Yesterday: The Science of Who We Trust and What We Believe

Here are some highlights from this 2020 book: * Arguing against widespread credulity puts me in the minority. A long line of scholarship— from ancient Greece to twenty- first- century America, from the most progressive to the most reactionary— portrays … Continue reading

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