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Intellectual Curiosity and Open Dialogue

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Kevin Shau
Feb 5

Holzweg — Philosophical Path through the Forests of Modernity

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Kevin Shau
Jan 30

Re-conceptualizing the Intellectual Landscape — Institutions and our Sense-Making Apparatus in 2021

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Kevin Shau
Jan 8

Trumpism and Treason — On the events of 6 January 2021

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Kevin Shau
Nov 28, 2020

The Intellectual Dark Web Revisited

The momentous election a few weeks ago constituted a high point of tension in the intellectual community which has become known as the Intellectual Dark Web. Coined by mathematician Eric Weinstein and popularized in a New York Times article by Bari Weiss in 2018, the…

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Kevin Shau
Aug 1, 2020

Man is Born Free, and Everywhere He is in Chains

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Kevin Shau
Jul 17, 2020

Rousseau on Authenticity and Self-Love

A restless genius in cosmopolitan Paris, Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) contemplated the…

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Kevin Shau
Jul 15, 2020

Bari Weiss, Free and Open Discourse, and the Gated Institutional Narrative

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Kevin Shau
Jun 26, 2020

Jean-Jacques Rousseau — The Most Important Figure in the History of Philosophy

“The ancient republics of…
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Kevin Shau
Sep 24, 2019

Why I admire Jean-Jacques Rousseau Despite his Many Major Faults

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Kevin Shau
Sep 1, 2019

War, Bloodshed, and the Emergence of Enlightenment in Europe

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