With Kant's 300th birthday coming up on April 22nd, I'm seeing a lot of "why study philosophy articles", and frankly I find offensive to even take that tack. To me it's not in question and I'd argue 99% of our misguidedness comes from lack of philosophical vision, why we're in a climate crisis, why there's so much othering, prejudice and oppression. I went to look for the examples I've seen recently and wow, there's a lot of articles that say "philosophy" in the title on the internet, I take it back, hardly a trend if I've seen two of them that I can't find now. They still don't know how consciousness works. And then Daniel Dennett died. I read Darwin's Dangerous Idea , and went to work and asked if people were evolutionists or creationist. At the time I worked at a special education school. The book made it clear to me that you couldn't be both, that evolution erases the creation narrative of Christianity that
48 year old Poet Laureate Ada Limon is the first Latina Poet Laureate. A Name When Eve walked among the animals and named them— nightingale, red-shouldered hawk, fiddler crab, fallow deer— I wonder if she ever wanted them to speak back, looked into their wide wonderful eyes and whispered, Name me, name me . The Leash After the birthing of bombs of forks and fear the frantic automatic weapons unleashed, the spray of bullets into a crowd holding hands, that brute sky opening in a slate metal maw that swallows only the unsayable in each of us, what’s left? Even the hidden nowhere river is poisoned orange and acidic by a coal mine. How can you not fear humanity, want to lick the creek bottom dry, to suck the deadly water up into your own lungs, like venom? Reader, I want to say: Don’t die. Even when silvery fish after fish comes back belly up, and the country plummets into a crepitating crater of hatred, isn’t there still something singing? The truth is: I don’t know. But sometimes, I