Love Is All a Matter of Timing
The Allegory of the Gynoids in Wong Kar-wai’s 2046
Many films are about love, but Wong Kar-wai’s 2046 is about love in a deeper sense....
Distracting Metaphors
Metaphors are great. They can make us see something in a new light: Think of universities as the beating heart of humanity and see...
How to Walk Away
Breaking up with someone can be painful and difficult. Breakups can make you depressed and even damage your heart and immune system. For that...
The Paradox of China’s Crypto Regulation and Capital Going Global (Part 1)
How China's Web3 Is Shifting from Token Finance to Data and State Credit
On November 28, 2025, the People’s Bank of China convened a meeting...
Good Work and Economic Democracy
Many political philosophers argue that all people are entitled as a matter of justice to real access to good work: skilled work that affords...
Nostalgic Longing for Childhood
Within popular culture, literature, television, and film, nostalgia is often (if not invariably) associated with childhood. From Proust to Tarkovsky up to modern outputs...
Why We Need a Formal, Mandatory, and Remunerated “Citizen Lobby”
At the end of the twentieth century, the end of the Cold War suggested that freedom and democracy were the name of the game....
Secrecy, Democracy, Necessity
While transparency has become the constant refrain of democratic politics, executive branch officials consistently seek to insulate their activities from public scrutiny.
A recurrent rationale...
Good Work and Class Conflict
Work, in the words of Karl Marx, is a “means of life” in two senses. It is, first of all, an instrument for human...
Iris Murdoch’s Psychology of Haunting: Fantasy, Ethical Attention, and the Spectral Past
Iris Murdoch’s fiction is filled with the uncanny and the weird: drowned bodies, vampiric presences, telekinetic objects, angelic visitations, prophetic dreams, and adolescent “feyness.”...