Cultural relativism, the realization that diverse cultures have different, incommensurable aesthetic standards, anticipated by Montaigne and Machiavelli, was the discovery of the Neapolitan ...

Since about the 1970s, a new and largely, what the historian Jeffrey Shandler terms, a “post-vernacular Yiddish culture” has started to develop in many, often unexpected, locales around the world.

The philosopher Samuel Scheffler has recently presented an important though experiment about the importance of immortality. Imagine, he proposes, we learn that soon after our natural death a gigantic ...