Caring for Democracy
The events at the US Capitol building in January 2021 remind us that democracy must be carefully cultivated. It is easy for violence, power,...
On Hiding Faces
3D scanner depiction of a masked face by the artist Lukas Einsele (2020) (permission granted by artist)
Faces are hidden for many reasons. We hide...
On Protest and Hope as Social Inquiry
In 1948, Marxist philosopher C.L.R. James, addressing Black political militancy, insisted “that the independent Negro movement that we see today and which we see...
Public Philosophy Editors on Building the Field
Earlier this year, we asked for your questions for editors of public philosophy venues. We previously shared their answers to your questions on pitching...
Report from Richmond’s Monument Wars: Public Art, National Trauma, Being with the Dead
Richmond, VA, the former Confederate capital and major slave trading center, is an active experimental laboratory for removing and transforming old so-called “monuments,” creating...
Public Philosophy Editors on Working with Writers
Earlier this year, we asked for your questions for editors of public philosophy venues. Last week, we shared their answers to your questions on...
Never Mind the Camus: Sartre’s Typhus is the Existential Plague Fiction We Need
Albert Camus has been having a good pandemic, sixty years after he died. Copies of The Plague have sold faster than publishers can print...
Public Philosophy Editors on Pitching
Earlier this year, we asked for your questions for editors of public philosophy venues. We are thrilled to publish the first of three parts...
Our Age of Institutional Decadence
By 555 A.D. Emperor Justinian I was close to reconquering most of the territories in Italy and North Africa lost 100 years earlier when...
How (Not) to Think About Anti-Feminist Women
The woman hangs on, not with the delicacy of a clinging vine, but with a tenacity incredible in its intensity, to the very...