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Omari Edwards is Contributing Editor at the Institute of Art and Ideas.

Omari Edwards is Contributing Editor at the Institute of Art and Ideas.

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How transhumanism dangerously ignores human nature

How transhumanism dangerously ignores human nature

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The flaws in the blueprint of life

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Love is not a virtue

Alasdair MacIntyre: The man who declared morality a fiction

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Sapolsky vs Sartre: The free will debate is not over

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Rana Mitter, Omari Edwards

Trump, China, and the end of Western dominance

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Omari Edwards, Jason Blakely

No one escapes their perspective

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Omari Edwards, Nadine Dijkstra

The reality gap

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Omari Edwards, Carlos Alberto Sanchez

Mexican philosophy vs Trump's post-truth world

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Simon Critchley, Omari Edwards

Beyond the limits of reason

Slavoj Žižek, a philosopher and cultural critic, sits pensively with a notebook, surrounded by a dynamic blue background with repeated images of himself.

Slavoj Žižek, Omari Edwards

Žižek: Quantum physics shows reality is incomplete

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Omari Edwards, Graham Priest

The paradoxes at the heart of reality

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Omari Edwards, Lee McIntyre

Navigating reality in the misinformation age

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Tim Palmer, Omari Edwards

We still don't understand climate change

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6 physicists on the legacy of Peter Higgs

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Omari Edwards, Kathleen Higgins

Music, grief, and philosophy

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String theory under fire

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Nick Lane, Omari Edwards

Cracking the creation of life

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Cass Sunstein, Omari Edwards

Nudge theory pioneer answers his critics