The Best Available Parent
Few things are more mundane than becoming a parent. One, or one’s partner, gives birth to a child; one takes the baby home, if...
What May We Hope for After Thirty Years of Failed Climate Summits?
In his 1795 essay Towards Perpetual Peace, Immanuel Kant prophesied that the “spirit of commerce” would drive countries to unite in perpetual peace, not...
What Accountability-Seeking Protest Can Tell Us About Democracy
What is the point of political protest? The answer seems to be that it depends on the kind of protest. In different real-life cases,...
Science Denial: From Post-Truth to Post-Trust
Philosophers Stephen Nadler and Lawrence Shapiro open their book When Bad Thinking Happens to Good People with a dire warning. “Something is seriously wrong,”...
The Argument for Anti-War Pacifism
This post was originally published on Kronika: Filozofski magazin and has been republished with the permission of Kronika and the author.
The basis of this...
Philosophy at the Threshold of Belonging
The idea of philosophy conjures images of old books and abstract debates. It tends to also be associated with the educated classes and privileged...
CES 2026: Wonders, Widgets, and a Few Red Flags
A few weeks ago, Las Vegas hosted my favorite show of the year: CES, the Consumer Electronics Show. Every January, I hatch elaborate plans...
Threading the Needle: Can We Respect Local Knowledge While Resisting Misinformation?
It’s common knowledge that we are awash in misinformation that can have severe negative consequences for society. When people hold false beliefs about the...
Solidarity, Self-Deprivation, and Selflessness
When a person or group of people lack a particular good, others will sometimes act in solidarity with them by depriving themselves of that...
In the Midst of a Crisis: Relational Liberalism and the Contemporary Challenges to Democratic...
Contemporary democratic societies are in the midst of a legitimacy crisis. This crisis relates to different dimensions of democracy: a breakdown in meaningful representation...