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Tools & toolboxes

Here we present links to high quality tools supporting cultural inquiry and expression—a selection of dictionaries, handbooks, encyclopedias, online libraries, and the like. Here we build the reference room for A Place to Study.

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Basic resources

Specialized Collections of Documents

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VJ List

  • Aeon - Free, digital publication focusing on Ideas. (Free via their Website)
  • Last Week Tonight with John Oliver - Deep-Dives on significant issues. (Free via YouTube)
  • Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj - Deep-Dive on political and cultural conditions. (Free via YouTube)
  • PBS Frontline - investigative journalism presented through documentaries and interviews. (Free via YouTube)
  • HathiTrust Digital Library - a large-scale collaborative repository of digital content from research libraries. (Free via YouTube)
  • The Criterion Channel - movie repository with spotlights from directors and interviews with artists/film-makers, critics. ($, sub required)
  • Ars Technica - website covering news and opinions in technology, science, politics, and society. (Free via their Website)
  • The Intercept - online news publication. (Free via their Website)
  • Literary Hub - a daily literary website that publishes literary fiction and nonfiction, personal and critical essays, interviews, and book excerpts. (Free via their Website)
  • n +1 - a print and digital magazine of literature, culture, and politics published three times yearly. ($, sub required)
  • The Point - a magazine of philosophical writing on everyday life and culture that is published three times a year in print and continuously online. (article limit, then sub required)
  • MIT Technology Review - a magazine wholly owned by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and editorially independent of the university. (Subscription offer for full access, but newsletter is free)
  • Daily Nous - a website that provides information, articles, reviews, interviews, and news for and about the philosophy profession.
  • Unicorn Riot - a decentralized, non-profit left-wing media collective that originated online in 2015. The group is known for reporting on far-right organizations and sources of racial and economic injustice in the US.
  • The Economist - is an international weekly newspaper printed in magazine-format and published digitally that focuses on current affairs, international business, politics, and technology. (limited articles, sub required).
  • Project Gutenberg - is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks. (free)
  • The Internet Archive - is an American digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge." It provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, software applications/games, music, movies/videos, moving images, and millions of books. (Free)
  • Scribd - is an American e-book and audiobook subscription service that includes one million titles. Scribd hosts 60 million documents on its open publishing platform. (30 days free, sub required)
  • LibriVox - is a group of worldwide volunteers who read and record public domain texts creating free public domain audiobooks for download from their website and other digital library hosting sites on the internet. (free)
  • The Ken - is an Indian news website as a premium subscriber-only platform that publishes one article per day. (sub required)
  • The New Republic - is an American magazine of commentary on politics, contemporary culture, and the arts, published since 1914.
  • The Conversation - is an independent and not-for-profit global network of newsrooms. (free)
  • The Appeal - produces original journalism about criminal justice focusing on the most significant drivers of mass incarceration, which occur at the state and local level. (free)
  • The Marshall Project - is a nonprofit, online journalism organization focusing on issues related to criminal justice in the United States. (free)
  • Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics @ Harvard - seeks to strengthen teaching and research about pressing ethical issues; to foster sound norms of ethical reasoning and civic discussion; and to share the work of our community in the public interest. (free)
  • The Wire - is an Indian news, opinion, and cultural criticism website. (free)
  • ProPublica - is a nonprofit organization based in New York City. It is a newsroom that aims to produce investigative journalism in the public interest. (free)
  • Dawn - is Pakistan's oldest, leading and most widely read English-language newspaper and is the country's newspaper of record. (free)
  • Longreads - is a website that features in-depth investigative reporting, interviews and profiles, podcasts, essays and criticism. (free)
  • Vox - is an American news and opinion website. (free)
  • Gizmodo - is a design, technology, science and science fiction website. (free)
  • Financial Times - is an international daily newspaper printed in broadsheet and published digitally that focuses on business and economic current affairs. (sub required)
  • The New Yorker - is an American weekly magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. (sub required)
  • Business Insider - is an American financial and business news website founded in 2009. (sub required)
  • Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews - is an electronic, peer-reviewed journal that publishes timely reviews of scholarly philosophy books. (free)
  • The New York Times - is an American newspaper based in New York City (limited articles, sub required)
  • The Chronicle of Higher Education - is a newspaper and website that presents news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty and student affairs professionals. (sub required)
  • New Naratif - is a movement for democracy, freedom of information, and freedom of expression in Southeast Asia. It provides information through research and reporting. (free)
  • Ozy - is an international media and entertainment company launched in September 2013. (free)
  • Citizens Against Hate - is a Delhi-based research and advocacy group. (free)
  • Indian Express - is an Indian daily newspaper. (free)
  • Biopolitical Philosophy - is a group blog administered by Melinda Hall and Shelley Tremain that provides critical analysis of biopolitical asymmetries and other mechanisms and effects of power in philosophy and beyond, especially with respect to disability and other apparatuses (such as gender, race, class, nationality, and sexuality) with which disability is co-constitutive.
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