Monthly Archives: March, 2026

The Risks of AI Recording Devices and Note-Taking Assistants in the Classroom

Recently, US classrooms have dealt with several forms of authoritarian and dystopian policies, ranging from Texas A&M banning Plato to UNC Chapel Hill secretly...

Dystopian Futures: Anthropic and the Department of Defense

Fantastical imaginings of a bleak and desolate end-state of mankind, characterized by environmental disasters, tyrannical governments, or some other cataclysmic decline, have been around...

Let Kids Be Kids? The Ethics of Maximizing Children’s Talents

Sam is fourteen years old. He spends hardly any time with friends or family. Every day, before or after school, or both, and every...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Aesthetics and Video Games

Christopher Bartel is Professor of Philosophy at Appalachian State University and Adjunct Research Fellow with the Practical and Public Ethics Research Group at Charles...

APA Member Interview, Christian Culak

Christian Culak is a moral philosopher concurrently lecturing at Texas A&M University-San Antonio and the University of Texas at San Antonio. When he’s not...

Love Is All a Matter of Timing

The Allegory of the Gynoids in Wong Kar-wai’s 2046 Many films are about love, but Wong Kar-wai’s 2046 is about love in a deeper sense....

Why “Service” and “Giving Back” Get It Wrong

We need fresh terms for what we refer to as “service” or “giving back.” I say this as someone who taught for 27 years...

Distracting Metaphors

Metaphors are great. They can make us see something in a new light: Think of universities as the beating heart of humanity and see...

How to Walk Away

Breaking up with someone can be painful and difficult. Breakups can make you depressed and even damage your heart and immune system. For that...

Testimonial Injustice But With Questions:  Steps Towards a Theory

As philosophers and teachers, we often have the great privilege and responsibility of choosing what questions we ask. And when other people (including our...

Why is Health Good for You?

“Brush your teeth,” a mother says to her son. She’s exhausted. She spent a long day organizing a series of speaking events hosted by...

The Paradox of China’s Crypto Regulation and Capital Going Global (Part 1)

How China's Web3 Is Shifting from Token Finance to Data and State Credit On November 28, 2025, the People’s Bank of China convened a meeting...

Feminist Theory in Times of Racial Terror: Spillers, Hartman, Snorton

Feminist theory provides means for unshackling ourselves from restrictive cultural and social rules and practices, when it comes to gender relations and identities. But...

“King of the who?”: Monty Python on Rousseauian Legitimacy

In this short clip from Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), Arthur, King of the Britons, attempts to exercise his dominion over two...

Understanding Evil, Jaime Denison

In summer 2025, I was approached by the director of the Central New Mexico (CNM) Honors Program to teach the seminar Understanding Evil in...