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Tracy Llanera and Louise Richardson-Self
10 min read
"Extremism and the Allure of Science": A Conversation with Tracy Llanera and Louise Richardson-Self (Keywords: White Supremacy; Conspiracy Theories; Nationalism; Gender; Essentialism; Objectivity)
"The long-term agendas of various stakeholders of white extremism skew the way that research data is interpreted and engaged."


Nima Bassiri
17 min read
"Science, Anti-Science, Pseudoscience, Truth": A Conversation with Nima Bassiri (Keywords: Authority; Trust; Liberalism; Scientism)
"The difference between the trust of science adherents and the trust of science deniers is not the form of trust but merely its content."


Alexandra Grant
8 min read
"The Publisher and the Public": An Essay by Alexandra Grant (Keywords: Art; Authorship; Freedom of Speech; Public Sphere)
"Publishing is a nearly limitless act that has the potential to build communities, expand minds, and offer new perspectives."


Brooke A. Holmes
17 min read
"Learning We": An Essay by Brooke A. Holmes (Keywords: Classical Education; Pedagogy; Crisis; National Identity; Humanism; Race; 1619 Project; Fanon)
"What defines the human on which the “we” of this nation was (truly) founded?"


Timothy Golden
11 min read
"Derrick Bell and Racial Realism": A conversation with Timothy Golden (Keywords: Critical Race Theory; Justice; Despair; Progress; Obama; Mass Incarceration)
"Black Americans are painfully reminded that racism has worsened since Obama’s presidency, not improved."


Ian James Kidd
17 min read
"Why Misanthropy?": A Conversation with Ian James Kidd (Keywords: Human Nature; Morality; Activism; Quietism; Confucius; The Buddha)
"Depressing as it might seem, misanthropy does register a fundamental truth about humankind as it has come to be."


Gary L. Francione
21 min read
"Animals, Property, and Personhood": An Essay by Gary L. Francione (Keywords: Ethics; Animal Rights; Law; Veganism; Suffering; Anthropocentrism)
We may think of animals as having moral value. But, because they are property, they don’t have moral value. They are just thing."


Lewis R. Gordon
10 min read
Frantz Fanon’s "The Wretched of the Earth": a conversation with Lewis R. Gordon (Keywords: Violence; Race; Dehumanisation; Psychoanalysis; Intersubjectivity; Poetry)
"Fanon himself hated violence. But what he hated more was complicity with violence through a refusal to act."


Robert Wyllie and Steven Knepper
19 min read
"Five Ways to Read Byung-Chul Han": An Essay by Robert Wyllie and Steven Knepper (Keywords: Hyperculture; Burnout; Zen Buddhism; Social Critique; Beauty; Continental Philosophy)
"Han implies that philosophy is not for professional philosophers but for everyone, so that we can better understand our exhausting times."


Mary Peterson
10 min read
“On Cancelling and Repair”: An essay by Mary Peterson (Keywords: Sexual Harassment; Restorative Justice; Carceral Feminism; himpathy; Trauma; Universities)
"For restorative justice to work, the perpetrators’ delusions, entitlement, rationalizations, and smearing of victims must stop."


Adam Ferner
9 min read
"The Philosophy of Parenting: Ambivalence in an Age of Choice": Adam Ferner reviews What Are Children For?: On Ambivalence and Choice by Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman (Macmillan, 2024)
"Irrespective of philosophical arguments, babies will still be born. Many of these babies will find themselves alone and in need of parents"


Heather King
7 min read
"Metaphorizing Animals": An Essay by Heather King (Keywords: Animals; Art; Literature; Selfhood)
"What sort of selves do literary works create? More broadly still, what kinds of selves does any manner of artwork create?"
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