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Jesse Elias Spafford

Jesse Spafford is a philosophy PhD candidate at the Graduate Center, CUNY. More on his philosophical work can be found on jessespafford.com.

Essays & Reviews

Beyond Belief

By Jesse Elias SpaffordJuly 2, 2013
A class of kids goes to see Waiting for Superman ready to hate it. They cry anyway. Why isn't being convinced enough?
Essays & Reviews

Just the Facts

By Jesse Elias SpaffordMarch 5, 2013
Conspiracy theorists seem like the polar opposite of sober technocratic pundits favored in mainstream press. But they are not so different
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Dissatisfaction City

By Jesse Elias SpaffordJanuary 2, 2013
The Las Vegas casino is a machine for social control that works not through repression but deinhibition, rationalizing our yearning for the expensive and impossible
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The Esoteric Whodunit

By Jesse Elias SpaffordAugust 10, 2012
What is the point of watching mysteries get solved when the motives and reasoning are beyond any ordinary person’s comprehension?
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The Selfless Man

By Jesse Elias SpaffordFebruary 10, 2012
Ryan Gosling’s lack of substance makes him the go-to heartthrob for ideological indoctrination
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