“Religion is the basis and Foundation of Government.” That’s something James Madison wrote, in 1785. Except he didn’t really write it—or, rather, he did write those words, but with a bunch of other ...

As Thomas Hobbes lay dying, he invited his friends to come up with possible epitaphs for his tombstone. His favorite was, "This is the true philosopher's stone." That's the theme of Simon Critchley's ...

The New School presents Bowie: A Tribute with Simon Critchley and Special Guests on Friday, February 12. The tribute in "sound + vision" to the late musician and artist David Bowie (1947-2016) will be ...

Pythagoras refused, on principle, to flee across a field of beans; he was caught and slaughtered. Hypathia, one of antiquity's most prominent female thinkers, fell into the hands of angry Christians, ...

For a glimpse of Memory Theater in microcosm, it wouldn't hurt to flip first to the book's back pages. There, you'll find "a partial glossary of potential obscurities" — where the names of Italian ...