Monthly Archives: October, 2025

Stamps, Sex, and Second Sex

Simone de Beauvoir is often remembered as a formidable philosopher, feminist theorist, and novelist—one who reshaped modern thought on freedom, gender, and ethics. Yet...

Race and Animals, Maya von Ziegesar

I taught this course at Wesleyan University in Spring 2025 to a class of 15 students, mostly seniors and sophomores. I was tasked the...

A long and winding path to philosophy through the law

It took me a long time to get to academic philosophy—in fact, most of my life. I didn’t major in philosophy in college, but...