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Michael Walzer's 'Just and Unjust Wars' is as applicable to Venezuela as it was to Vietnam
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Kant's essay 'Toward Perpetual Peace' lays out conditions that neither Israel nor Hamas could ever meet
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Opinion Which school of philosophy provides the best guide for how to think about Gaza?
When it comes to the horrors of the war in the MIddle East, neither Moses nor Immanuel Kant is sufficient
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In biblical times and in the Nazi era, ordinary men and women performed awe-inspiring acts; they still do today
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Culture In a new documentary, Hannah Arendt becomes the patron saint of anti-fascism
'Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny' details the main beats of the philosopher's life, but leaves out the controversy
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Opinion How a Holocaust philosopher can help us make sense of Trump’s disgraceful Jan. 6 pardons
For Vladimir Jankélévitch, some acts were beyond the realm of forgiveness
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Culture How a brilliant Jewish philosopher anticipated the cult of Donald Trump
Walter Benjamin's 1936 essay on art in the age of mechanical reproduction looks particularly prescient today
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