“Those who control the fantasy control the future… #HeatedRivalry offers a cinematic universe that references our own, but casts an alternate vision of a world that’s possible—a world of pleasure, mutuality, humanness, intimacy, creativity and joy…" Best thinkpiece on #HR yet? #Hollanov #Tierney 🌅

My latest: Mark Carney just delivered the most important speech in recent Canadian history. Now, we wait for the fallout. #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/20/o...

Join us #online every Friday for a live reading of #Either/Or, #Kierkegaard's examination of the #Aesthetic vs #Ethical ways of life! 🎭 👉 RSVP for the 1st meeting on 1/30 here – meetup.com/the-toronto-... 🗓 Check out our calendar for daily #philosophy events! #Existentialism #Ethics #MeaningOfLife

The work of the writer and critic Susan Sontag remains endlessly relevant and urgent. She died on this day, twenty-one years ago, and to mark her life we’re sharing a favourite archive essay in memory of her hunger for knowledge and the remarkable body of work she left behind

Join us on #Zoom on Jan 25 to discuss the global cultural phenomenon that is the hit #Canadian show about #gay #hockey players, #Heated Rivalry! 🏒 ➡ RSVP here – meetup.com/the-toronto-... 🗓 Check out our calendar for daily #philosophy events! #HeatedRivalry #Hollanov #LGBTQ #PhilosophyOfLove

@fanniebialek.bsky.social #love #change #uncertainty #ethics #relationships #philsky Check out Fannie Bialek's book: "Love in Time: An Ethical Inquiry," and hope to see you on Monday!! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Announcing: On Philosophy, Winter 2026!! All events are free, Mondays at 2pm ET / 7pm UK (except March 2nd is 30 min later, and March 9th is 3pm ET) featuring Angie Hobbs, Yann Allard-Tremblay, Fannie Bialek, Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, Kaitlyn Creasy, and so many more! #Philosophy #PhilEvents

Women are going wild for #HeatedRivalry. The Canadian series with explicit male-on-male sex scenes has tapped into a long-overlooked corner of the audience — and caught Hollywood by surprise. Read THR's latest cover story: bit.ly/3Y8jdmQ

How would #Plato address current questions of the nature of a good life, healthcare, love and friendship, heroism, reality, art, and myth-making? How could he help us engage with contested issues in a more constructive way? Join us Mon. Jan. 5. #Philosophy www.tickettailor.com/events/theph...

Join us #online every Monday for a live reading & discussion of #Rumi's #poetry, starting with the Fihi Ma Fihi! 🕊 ➡ RSVP for the 1st meeting on Jan 5 here – meetup.com/the-toronto-... 🗓 Check out our calendar for daily #philosophy events! #Spirituality #Love #Religion #Ethics #Metaphysics #Sufism

Join us #online every Monday for a live reading & discussion of #Rumi's #poetry, starting with the Fihi Ma Fihi! 🕊 ➡ RSVP for the 1st meeting on Jan 5 here – meetup.com/the-toronto-... 🗓 Check out our calendar for daily #philosophy events! #Spirituality #Love #Religion #Ethics #Metaphysics #Sufism

New Work in Philosophy || Donald Wilson (Kansas State University), Practical Kantian Ethics: A Commonsense Account of Moral Life https://newworkinphilosophy.substack.com/p/donald-wilson-kansas-state-university

Is world #peace a realistic moral goal? As a capstone for the year, join us #online to discuss #Kant's seminal essay Perpetual Peace! 🌍 ➡ Sign up for the 1st meeting on 12/23 here – www.meetup.com/the-toronto-... 🗓 Check out our calendar for daily #philosophy events! #Ethics #PoliticalPhilosophy

While there is “no dictator gene” there IS a micropenis gene: a mutation on PROK2. Hitler had it. (Explains a few things.) We had to wait 80 years to learn about it. I wonder if a certain OTHER dictator also has the micropenis gene??? news.sky.com/story/hitler...

Join us on #Zoom to discuss The Act of Killing (2012), the acclaimed #documentary about the 1965–66 #Indonesian genocide by Joshua Oppenheimer! 🎥 ▶ Sign up for the Dec 7 meeting here – meetup.com/the-toronto-... 🗓 Check out our calendar for daily #philosophy events! #Ethics #Film #Movies #Politics

Join us on #Zoom to discuss The Act of Killing (2012), the acclaimed #documentary about the 1965–66 #Indonesian genocide by Joshua Oppenheimer! 🎥 ▶ Sign up for the Dec 7 meeting here – meetup.com/the-toronto-... 🗓 Check out our calendar for daily #philosophy events! #Ethics #Film #Movies #Politics

“We’re drawn to magic bullet solutions that cannot solve complex social problems. It is all too easy for someone who makes a genuinely profound discovery to think they have found the secret of life, or the environment, or disease.”

What are #Emotions? Join us #online for a new reading group on #MerleauPonty & the book Turning Emotion Inside Out: Affective Life Beyond the Subject! 😊 👉 RSVP for the 1st meeting on Nov 21 here – meetup.com/the-toronto-... 🗓 Check out our calendar for daily events! #Philosophy #Phenomenology

What are #Emotions? Join us #online for a new reading group on #MerleauPonty & the book Turning Emotion Inside Out: Affective Life Beyond the Subject! 😊 👉 RSVP for the 1st meeting on Nov 21 here – meetup.com/the-toronto-... 🗓 Check out our calendar for daily events! #Philosophy #Phenomenology

When Wanda Diáz-Merced lost her sight as a college student, she thought her dreams of becoming an astronomer were over — until she learned to listen to space instead. Listen to the fourth episode of our new four-part series, The Sound Barrier:

What is #Love? Why does it matter? Join us #online every Saturday for a live reading group on #Plato's Symposium! 💕 #Ethics ➡ Sign up for the 1st meeting on Nov 8 here – meetup.com/the-toronto-... 🗓 Check out our calendar for daily events and discussions! #Philosophy #Literature #Metaphysics

What is #Love? Why does it matter? Join us #online every Saturday for a live reading group on #Plato's Symposium! 💕 #Ethics ➡ Sign up for the 1st meeting on Nov 8 here – meetup.com/the-toronto-... 🗓 Check out our calendar for daily events and discussions! #Philosophy #Literature #Metaphysics

We can debate someday where this World Series ranks among the all-time classics. But let’s leave that for another time. @jaysonst.bsky.social has the deep dive on why the 2025 World Series was so special ⤵️ www.nytimes.com/athletic/677...

Join us #online for a spooky #Halloween movie discussion on The #Exorcist! 👿 But it's also a serious film exploring themes of #faith, #death, & the limits of human #knowledge. 👉 RSVP for the Oct 26 meeting here – www.meetup.com/the-toronto-... 🗓 Check out our calendar for daily events! #Philosophy

Annual Lecture 2025: Professor Will Kymlicka Society as a Common Possession: Membership and Solidarity in Diverse Societies 12/11/25, 6pm, King’s College London. Drinks reception will follow. Free tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/society-fo... #philosophy #philsky #KCL #willkymlicka

Toronto Blue Jays LFG!! For Canada! 🇨🇦 🍁🧢⚾️🏟️ #WorldSeries2025 #BlueJays

Join us #online on #Halloween for a special discussion on H.P. #Lovecraft, Weird Realism, and #Philosophy! 👹 👉 Sign up for this October 31 meetup here – meetup.com/the-toronto-... 📅 Check out our calendar for daily discussions & events! #BookClub #Metaphysics #Literature #Cthulhu #Being #Heidegger

Join us #online for a philosophically-focused live reading & discussion series for James #Joyce's #Ulysses! ☘️ #Bloomsday ▶ RSVP for the 1st meeting on Oct 25 here – meetup.com/the-toronto-... 🗓 Check out our calendar for daily discussions & events! #Philosophy #BookClub #Literature #Aquinas

Join us #online on #Halloween for a special discussion on H.P. #Lovecraft, Weird Realism, and #Philosophy! 👹 👉 Sign up for this October 31 meetup here – meetup.com/the-toronto-... 📅 Check out our calendar for daily discussions & events! #BookClub #Metaphysics #Literature #Cthulhu #Being #Heidegger

Announcing: On Philosophy, Fall 2025!! All events are free, Mondays at 2pm ET / 7pm UK (except Oct. 27th at 3pm ET) featuring Alyssa Battistoni, Quill Kukla, James Bridle, Louise Amoore, Athene Donald, Francesca Peacock, Jennifer Park, Dan McQuillan, and so many more! #Philosophy #PhilEvents

Did #Heidegger get #Plato wrong? 🤔 Join us #online for a reading group on Plato's #phenomenology and dialogical #ethics! 👀 ▶ Sign up for the 1st meeting on 9/13 here – www.meetup.com/the-toronto-... 📅 Check out our calendar for daily discussions & events! #Philosophy #Metaphysics #Being #Gadamer

What would a Canadian insurgency look like? This week on Gloves Off, we explore the unthinkable: a U.S. military occupation of Canada, why insurgencies form, and how ordinary people become fighters. 🎧 Listen here: shows.acast.com/gloves-off

"Nietzsche thought #Stoicism was a profound betrayal of human nature — a #philosophy of life-denial disguised as wisdom, spiritual anesthesia masquerading as strength…" 🔥🔥🔥 Join us on #Zoom tomorrow to discuss Why #Nietzsche Hated Stoicism! All welcome! RSVP here - www.meetup.com/the-toronto-...

Life is a moral catastrophe. To exist is to be unavoidably complicit in an order that is entirely evil. What are we to do about this moral fact? Should we retire from existence as quickly and as peacefully as possible? Or is there another way?

"Nietzsche thought #Stoicism was a profound betrayal of human nature — a #philosophy of life-denial disguised as wisdom, spiritual anesthesia masquerading as strength…" 🔥🔥🔥 Join us on #Zoom tomorrow to discuss Why #Nietzsche Hated Stoicism! All welcome! RSVP here - www.meetup.com/the-toronto-...

Join us #online tonight for the start of a live reading series on Classical Chinese #Poetry! 🖌️ We begin with The Book of Songs from ~1100 BC. 👉 Sign up here – meetup.com/the-toronto-... Check out our calendar for daily #philosophy discussions & events! #BookClub #History #Literature #Confucianism

Drawing on perspectivism, the Übermensch, and Eternal Recurrence, Leah Batstone argues that Mahler’s symphonies recast Nietzsche’s ideas through a progressive, pluralistic lens. | iai.tv/articles/how... Tap the link to read more. #philsky #artsky #musicsky

What is #Faith? Join us on #Zoom next week to discuss “Found By Faith”, an episode of the How God Works podcast with guest David Brooks! 🪔🙏 @daviddesteno.bsky.social ➡️ RSVP here – www.meetup.com/the-toronto-... Check out our calendar for daily philosophy events! #Religion #Philosophy #Psychology

Excellent piece by @jenszalai.bsky.social. She and @paulbloomatyale.bsky.social are right. Empathy unfettered can be a problem. But this is why religions tend to cultivate it, but also put guardrails around it. Empathy is the fire, but principles constrain its focus & limits.🧵

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Yesterday: the economists were wrong, tariffs are clearly working Today: Ok, we need to fire the economists because the jobs data doesn't look good

“There's no such thing as a brilliant, magical centrist set of issues. There have been so many efforts- to- transcend the party system with the smarter ideas and the better ideas. That's just not how ideas work.” 💡 @didikuo1.bsky.social @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

🎧 Dr. Greta Uehling joins us to talk about the 2014 invasion of Crimea, the many forms of #resistance to Russian aggression, and her new book Decolonizing Ukraine ⬇️ #BookSky #SkyStorians @womenknowhistory.bsky.social @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Join us on #Zoom tomorrow to discuss "Human Nature and The Impossibility of #Utopia"! 🌞🕊️ Is utopia achievable? And if not, why not? @paulbloomatyale.bsky.social ▶️ Sign up here - meetup.com/the-toronto-... Check out our calendar for daily philosophy events! #PoliticalPhilosophy #Philosophy #Ethics

After 19 seasons of The Agenda and more than 4000 shows and 19 000 guests, Steve Paikin has a brand new gig – with a very original name. Launching soon: The Paikin Podcast. Subscribe at Apple: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t... Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/1OhwznC...

A “House” call - thanks to @jptasker.bsky.social for this deep dive into the workings of the reformed independent Senate. #cdnpoli #SenateofCanada #SenCA @senindepend.bsky.social

New episode just dropped! Check out this great conversation with special guest @katemanne.bsky.social about public philosophy! w/ @drleighmjohnson.bsky.social @rickleephilos.bsky.social & @talia-mae.bsky.social hotelbarpodcast.com/podcast/publ...