Public Philosophy

The Power of Concepts under Authoritarianism: The Life of Arendt’s Banality of Evil in...

The racist killing of Georg Floyd in the Summer of 2020 created waves of protests not only in the U.S. but all over the...

Immunoprivilege: Past, Present and Future

With the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine, more and more countries and companies are turning to immunity passports (or certificates) to verify whether one...

Missing and Diverging Information in COVID-19: Complex Causes, Built Environments, and Public Engagement

Information changes, and, often, divergence is involved in the process—perhaps as a catalyst for more adequate information, or maybe just as fuel for the...

Policing and Criminal Oppression

One of the unfortunate realities of working on philosophy of crime and punishment in the United States is that there are always new instances...

Tourism, Colonialism, and Disease

A recent bonne nouvelle for the jet-set is that the European Union will be reopening its borders to American tourists. The pandemic put a...

The War on Wokeness

Opponents of “woke capitalism” want to make “woke” a four-letter word. Yet, at least one philosopher, Stanley Cavell, who spent much of his career...
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Technologies of Incarceration, COVID-19, and the Racial Politics of Death

In the first few weeks of a nationwide shutdown spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic, former Attorney General William P. Barr issued a memorandum to...

Transnational Capitalism and Feudal Privilege: Open Borders as a Tool for Non-Domination

Joseph Carens famously described the current system of divided and highly unequal citizenships as a modern form of feudal privilege. This system, he claimed,...

Police, Privacy, and Searches

American police are on trial now. This goes beyond Officer Derek Chauvin, who was recently convicted for murdering George Floyd in May 2020, for...

The Care Exploitation of Essential Workers

COVID-19 has forced us to recognize that teachers, nurses, and countless other essential workers go above and beyond. We’ve witnessed the ways they take...