In recent years, provincial parliaments in Canada have increasingly used a legal mechanism known as the notwithstanding clause to suspend the constitutionally protected rights...
Globally, democracy is on a downward curve. According to the latest V‑Dem Institute report, the world has fewer democracies than autocracies for the first...
In the TV show Severance, employees at the mysterious company Lumon agree to have their consciousness severed between their work-selves (the “innies”) and their...
My course, PHI 4220: African American Philosophy II, provides students with an in-depth survey of the major historical periods and schools of thought in...
We often picture ourselves the birth of philosophical thought happening before the eyes of the Athenian citizens, mesmerized and horrified by the discussions and...
We are only seeking man.
We have no need of other worlds.
We need mirrors.
–Stanisław Lem, Solaris
Machines, artificial intelligences (AI), can now produce creative works such...
The flow of evidence is pervasively impacted by social dynamics. One straightforward illustration of this point is that individuals routinely give evidence to one...
Political scholars and commentators often lament low turnout in elections. Declining participation in established and more recent democracies has long been treated as a...
The Diversity and Inclusiveness Beat is running a mini-series called “Why I Support the Virtual APA.” This post marks the second of four installments....
In her 1951 landmark study, The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt characterized statelessness as “the newest mass phenomenon in contemporary history,” one which has...
