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The Problem of Protesting at People’s Homes

Protesters have targeted the private homes of public officials. This is dangerous and misguided. It risks violence and misunderstands political power and political protest. In Idaho last month, after a...

Three Keys to Surviving the Coronavirus Pandemic: Compassion, Simplicity, Patience

...view this crisis as an opportunity to unearth the treasures of wisdom. Editor’s note: This piece was previously published by the Fresno Bee, where Andrew Fiala writes a regular column. Tweet...

Andrew Fiala

Andrew Fiala is a professor of philosophy and director of The Ethics Center at Fresno State University. He writes a regular column for the Fresno Bee and also blogs on...

Agonistic Democracy and Its Remedies

In this winter of discontent we discover that democracy contains a dark side. We should lower our expectations without giving up hope. The president suggests that Democrats do not love...

The Importance of Gratitude

Gratitude lubricates social relations. To say thanks is to express gladness. But gratitude is also a spiritual capacity that lightens and energizes. Some call it the wine of the soul....

Awards Roundup: Summer 2017

...of the 2017 Sharp Prize Public Philosophy Op-Ed Contest 2017 winners: Katalin Balog, Rutgers University–Newark for “’Son of Saul,’ Kierkegaard and the Holocaust” Andrew Fiala, California State University, Fresno for...

2017 Public Philosophy Op-Ed Contest Winners Announced

...York Times) Andrew Fiala, “Without Faith in Humanity, Cynicism Grows and Democracy Becomes Mob-Rule,” The Fresno Bee Newspaper David V. Johnson, “A Democracy Deficit Plagues the U.S. and the European...

What Are You Reading? (March 7–13)

...and Animals Andrew Fiala (Ed.), R. Paul Churchill, and J. Jeremy Wisnewski, on The Bloomsbury Companion to Political Philosophy Donald C. Ainslie, Hume’s True Scepticism James Kreines, Reason in the...