Four Arendtian Theses for Interpreting U.S. Immigration Policy Under Trump
In her 1951 landmark study, The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt characterized statelessness as “the newest mass phenomenon in contemporary history,” one which has...
The Übermensch of Excellence? In Defense of Ordinariness
This post was originally published on Kronika: Filozofski magazin and has been republished with the permission of Kronika and the author.
A specter is haunting Europe—the specter of...
Liberalism and Socialism: Allies or Opponents?
The victory of Zohran Mamdani in the 2025 New York City Mayoral election has propelled discussion of socialism to the front of the political...
Seasick in My Own Skin: Reflections on Chronic Disease
“The itching won’t stop.”
“We need to call the clinic first thing tomorrow,” my wife said.
Malaise. Unstoppable nausea. Brain-scrambling migraines. Now this indomitable itch. Such has...
Do You “Delve”?
How Generative AI Is Changing Our Vocabulary—And Maybe Our Thinking.
When I worked on one of the early posts in this series, a data scientist...
Expressing the Absurd Society in Orson Welles’s The Trial
Few authors of the twentieth century were as sensitive to the relationship between human existence and the apparent randomness of life as Franz Kafka...
Must we Compromise? Democracy and Polarization
In debates over mounting political polarization, few concerns are voiced more often than the loss of compromise. The decline of bipartisanship is often treated...
A Kantian Approach to Everything? On Life Choices and Universal Basic Income
Immanuel Kant urged us to respect the value of human beings by treating them always (at the same time) as ends in themselves and...
The State-Family Narrative and the Responsive State
On February 5, I delivered a presentation on China’s legal response system to domestic violence at Emory Law School, in which I introduced the...
Humanist Feminism and Dehumanization
A basic tenet of feminism is that women as a group face systematic and non-accidental forms of social injustice. Hence, feminism has typically been...