AI Agents and Solidarity at Work
Imagine the following scenario: You are an engineer who has worked for years with a small group of colleagues. One day, your company informs...
Copycat Covers
Taylor Swift is a hugely successful businesswoman. She’s also an artist. A large part of her “Taylor’s Versions” project is (or was) the replication...
Accounting for Institutional Limitations on Agency under Trump: Civil Servants’ Loyalty Traps
When I started investigating civil servants’ responses to the first Trump administration in 2017, I presumed civil servants were likely to face ethical dilemmas....
The Republican Moment: Reviving Freedom and Democracy in an Authoritarian Age
Across the globe, authoritarianism is in the ascendancy. As Freedom House have reported, over the last two decades many repressive regimes across the world...
Should States Be Allowed to Sell Their Citizenship?
Many philosophers think that certain things should not be for sale. But should states sell citizenship to foreigners? Consider one recent proposal: President Donald...
The Problem with the Phrase “I’m Not Surprised, But…”
“I’m not surprised, but….” “It is hardly unexpected that this has happened, but….” I trust that such formulations are familiar, as is what follows:...
The Metaphysics Behind Putin’s War on Liberalism
Radical Conservatives like Dugin want to change our view of reality
This post was originally published by the Institute of Art and Ideas and is republished here with...
The Cost of Rotten Speech: Knowledge, Reason & Democracy
The previous post in this series looked at how Elon Musk’s attempt to transform X (formerly Twitter) into a digital town square—grounded in absolute free speech—ironically...
Mary Midgley and The Necessity of Philosophy
Mary Midgley has become an increasingly prominent name in recent years. This could be attributed to her passing in 2018, which, along with the...
Why the News Can Never Be Neutral, and What We Can Do About It
Pragmatism can solve journalism's truth problem
This post was originally published by the Institute of Art and Ideas and is republished here with permission as part of...