Over the past two decades, traumas at home and crises abroad have shaken many citizens’ confidence in America’s democratic ...

Zack Beauchamp is a senior correspondent at Vox, where he covers ideology and challenges to democracy, both at home and abroad. His book on democracy, The Reactionary Spirit, was published 0n July ...

Rorty’s metaphor of language as a wave reshaping the shore reflects how psychological change occurs through dialogue and reflection. By finding new ways of describing life, clients can transform ...

In 2004, the American pragmatist philosopher Richard Rorty delivered his Page-Barbour lectures under the title Philosophy as Poetry. This title beautifully reflects an important aspect of Rorty ...

Books Richard Wolin, The Seduction of Unreason: The Intellectual Romance with Fascism from Nietzche to Postmodernism (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 2004). Fifteen years ago, revelations about the ...

As an undergraduate at Stanford University, I was lucky enough to have a small seminar with Richard Rorty. Although he was already a legend in his own time, he was open to having a discussion with ...