Gentrification has as one of its essential steps the entrance of young white college kids into previously disaffected neighborhoods. White progressives, yet, are the most likely to complain about the plight of the gentrified.

Take a look at any YouTube video of President Joe Biden, and one will see a flurry of hatred. Where is this hatred coming from and why isn’t Google being transparent about it’s source?

Formal credentials are received when higher-education degrees are completed, but they are not the sole factor determining a worker’s experience and utility to employers.

The Intentional Stance is Daniel Dennett’s notion of rational understanding of other minds. The Intentional Stance’s overwhelming absence in political discourse contributes to corrosive misunderstandings.

Noticing that hyperpartisanship is a problem in America is not the same as saying the far-right and far-left are equally bad or bad for the same reasons.

Democratic populism in the past has been a failure, but Pennsylvania senate election winner John Fetterman has provided a better model for future democrats to follow ideally.

Climate change has already begun increasing the frequency and intensity of adverse weather events globally. If this expands, universal basic income could be a feasible option to compensate for job loss.

How can the government actually get the rich to pay taxes fairly? Should they increase income tax rates? The best course of action is closing tax loopholes that can get them around increasing what are already high tax rates.

In 2021, I visited NYC’s Little Island park out of interest, and when I was there, I couldn’t help but think of how much better spent the $260 million price tag could have been. This editorial was inspired by that visit.

Doctors during the COVID-19 pandemic experienced large numbers of patients in all open settings, such as hospitals and urgent care. These patient loads have led doctors to experience compassion fatigue and a discouraging picture of the future of medicine.

Higher education is well-funded, but for the wrong reasons. Funds should be going to professors and students more than administrators, but the reverse is what’s occurring in reality.

Education and existentialism could indeed go hand-in-hand, but the modern education system seldom tolerates philosophical thinkers.

The Birth of Tragedy was Friedrich Nietzsche’s first book, and it anticipates various themes and ideas that appear in his later philosophy.

Creon embodies the tyrannical father Jungian archetype in Sophocles’ Antigone.

Should humanity return to nature? Does society and private property make humanity worse, as Rousseau thought?

Morality is only interpretation, says Nietzsche. There are no objective moral truths, only interpretations. This essay argues that morality is, in fact, objective.

Before Daoism, Ancient Chinese Philosophy was largely characterized by strict moral rules and metaphysical doctrines. Daoism’s dynamic departure from this denotes Heidegger’s “ontological difference.”

Zhuangzi’s Daoism in the Zhuangzi entails an emphasis on human freedom through doing nothing.

Heidegger is interested in the relationship of human freedom and agency with time. Dasein is both determinate and indeterminate —both a product of fate and a manipulator of outcomes.

Existentialism played a role in the development of contemporary psychology, so psychologists could benefit from explicitly studying the essential texts of existentialism.