Who Is Building the Wall?
Magnifica Humanitas, Anthropic, and the Future of AI
Unable to escape the stream of media commentary surrounding Pope Leo XIV's recent encyclical on safeguarding humanity...
Camus and Confronting the Horror of the Everyday Absurd
Albert Camus (1913–1960) has been one of my favorite philosophical writers writing about existence since my undergraduate days long ago. Camus was a playwright,...
Jedda and the Racial Logic of Cinema’s Platonic Cave
Charles Chauvel’s Jedda (1955) holds an important place in the history of Australian cinema. Long considered a classic, it tells the tale of a...
The Politics and Ethics of Autocratic Elections
Why do many autocrats hold at least somewhat competitive elections? And how should democrats engage, if at all, in such elections? Assuming that the...
Gig Work, Planning Agency, and the Relevance of Outside Options
Brightly clad delivery drivers, darting in and out of restaurants and traversing the city on bicycles, mopeds, or in cars, have become a persistent...
Becoming Hard: The Manosphere as Radicalization Conveyer Belt for the Neofascist Far Right
The rise of the “manosphere” online, bringing together “pickup artists” (PUAs), “incels” (involuntary celibates), “men going their own way” (MGTOWs), men’s rights activists (MRAs),...
QAnon, Crosswords, and Knowledge-Based Videogames: The Aesthetics of Inquiry
Some people think Hillary Clinton and other high-profile Democrats were part of a satanic cult drinking the blood of children at a Washington, D.C....
A Reparative Approach to the Injustices of Displacement
The situations of refugees and displaced people cry out for moral repair. Uprooted by severe threats to their lives and liberty, they are forced...
Backcasting: Why and How the Past and Present Drive the Future
Backcasting is one of several methods futurists use to understand possible futures. Futurists, of course, cannot “tell the future,” but they work hard to...
Who Defends Democracy and On What Grounds?
Democracies have been in decline, and many scholars are now rightly asking how this process can be halted. Much of the research on democratic...