Philosophical Dictionary

Silicon Valley turned Stoicism into a productivity hack. But the philosophy's founder wanted to abolish private property — and its most famous figures were expelled and killed for being political threats. Here's what billionaires quote, what they skip, and why that gap is not accidental.

Palantir's 2026 manifesto celebrates cultural hierarchy and dismisses pluralism. But Nietzsche, the philosopher often associated with power and strength, spent years attacking nationalism as a "neurosis" and calling himself a "good European." What happens when Silicon Valley reads philosophy selectively.

Aristotle said contemplation was the highest life. Hannah Arendt said modernity killed it and replaced action with endless labor. Now we're trapped working and consuming instead of thinking or truly acting. Her 1958 book The Human Condition warned us: we became jobholders, not citizens or thinkers.

We discuss the life and work of Marxist feminist critical theorist Angela Davis. We offer a taste of her life's work as an activist philosopher.

A  philosopher's toolkit for empowering critique of the powerful through the lens of Mel Brooks' "The Producers" and Hannah Arendt's concept of the "banality of evil." Though humor and satire you, too, can speak up, knowing everyday evil is only human.