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...
What ChatGPT Gets Wrong About Therapy: On The Ethical and Relational Limits of AI...
ChatGPT plays the role of a therapist. But it is not a particularly good therapist. And to worsen matters, as ChatGPT becomes more widely...
The Threats of CEO Activism to the Democratic Process
We recently published an article in the Journal of Business Ethics reflecting on how CEO activism—the growing trend of CEOs taking public stances on...
Garden as a Performance
Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau, the owner of the Muskau Park (now in Germany and Poland), an aristocratic gardener and author of Hints on Landscape...
Economic Democracy as the Redemption of Political Democracy
Economic democracy is most often defended by pointing to the so-called “firm-state analogy.” Hannes Kuch’s recent plea for economic democracy in an earlier post...
The Perceptual World of Danger
Ludwig Wittgenstein claimed, “The world of a happy man is a different one from that of the unhappy man.” This is definitely true at least...