How A Turkish Game Show Undermined Censorship Of The Protests

“The country’s three main television networks (including CNN Turkey) have almost completely ignored the demonstrations … That’s because government censors are allowed to restrict news media when ‘public health and morals, national security, public order, public safety, and the unity of the land are at stake.’ But that didn’t stop one wily show from finding its way around the media blackout.”

Russia’s Two Top Museums Fight Over Modernist Collection

“A row over Modernist masterpieces continues to simmer between the State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow and St Petersburg’s State Hermitage Museum … The dispute involves dozens of works from the collections of Ivan Morozov and Sergei Shchukin, including paintings by Renoir, Cézanne, Matisse and Picasso, once housed in the State Museum of New Western Art in Moscow.”

All Philosophy Needs To Become Relevant Is A Good Marketing Plan

“If philosophy is so important, then selling itself to the culture at large is important too. So it’s time for philosophers to put their clothespins on their noses, wade into the stench of real-world commerce, and ask some of those tanned and toned marketing majors who skipped out on Philosophy 101 for some help.” After all, philosophy already has a popular product: thought experiments.

What Christians Can Learn From Listening To Young Atheists

Last year the Fixed Point Foundation began a nationwide campaign to interview members of college atheist groups. “The rules were simple: Tell us your journey to unbelief. It was not our purpose to dispute their stories or to debate the merits of their views. Not then, anyway. We just wanted to listen to what they had to say. And what they had to say startled us.”