By Justin Martin In The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021), anthropologist David Graeber and Archeologist David Wengrow set out to offer a new way of thinking about the human origins of social complexity that is more in line with relatively recent scholarship and the preponderance of evidence as a whole. While…
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Free Will: Reality or Illusion? A Debate with Matthew Brake and Professor Gary Andrews
About 2 months ago, I (Matthew Brake) was invited to debate Professor Gary Andrews, a psychology professor at Lehigh Carbon Community College in Schnecksville, PA to participate in a debate about the existence of Free Will. Professor Andrews contended that human beings do not have free will, and I argued for a (constrained) free will. The…
Jessica Jones: Freedom and Guilt
By Corey Patterson With the upcoming second season of Jessica Jones set to premiere on Netflix March 8th, I thought it’d be a good idea to revisit the first season and all its intricacies. The series, along with Daredevil, helped shape the Marvel TV show landscape over the past few years by introducing us to…
Freedom, Despair, and the Self
By Cole DeSantis One of the more memorable moments from the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival in 1969 was folk guitarist and singer Richie Havens’ set, which opened the festival. Anyone who, like myself, is interested in music and culture from that era will recall how Havens was asked to open the festival after several…
Re-engineering the Bible: Samson, Delilah, and the Grateful Dead
By Bruce Chilton The story of Samson and Delilah, Samson’s last paramour among many unsuitable women (Judges 16:4-31), has attracted painters such as Rubens, poets such as Milton, and even the film-maker Cecil B. DeMille. (He cast Victor Mature and Hedy Lamarr in the title roles in his 1949 film.) Bob Weir with the Grateful…
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