A Conversation with Tom Stoppard

Tom Stoppard: The Amorality of the Artist

To maintain a healthy balanced loyalty, whether to art or society, posits a debatable issue. The artist is always on the look out for the potential tension between those two realms. Therefore, one of the most painful dilemmas the artist finds is how to function in a society without sacrificing the aesthetic values of his/her work. In other words, the life-long awareness of failure which derives...

Perspectives of an errant economist: a conversation with Tom Schelling. Interview by John K. Iglehart.

Mind the Gap: An Analysis of the Function of Love in the Works of Tom Stoppard and C.S. Lewis

Philosophy, Art and Critique: A (short) conversation with the “other”

The article sketches a nexus between philosophy, art (poetry) and critique with a particular emphasis on the contribution of classical Muslim philosophers. At the same time, it demonstrates how luminaries such as Omar Khayyam and Ibn Sina, contributed to the renewal of philosophy as a freedom seeking exercise and as a means to pursue happiness through knowledge. In the second&nbs...

QnAs with Tom Insel.

When it comes to uncovering how the brain develops across the human lifespan, “change” may be the key word. Mounting evidence from molecular atlases of brain development suggests that the midgestational human brain markedly differs from the adult brain, undergoing wholesale transformation over time by tuning the timing and location of gene expression (1). “In fact, so many genes are translated ...