Radical Protest and Moral Justification
Imagine a protest. What do you see?
Perhaps you imagined a demonstration: people marching, carrying hand-painted signs, singing songs, or chanting slogans. (“We are the...
All Rebels Risk Being Tyrants
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How to Preserve Privacy in the Age of Mass Surveillance: Democracy or Technology?
It is obvious to most people that we live in an age of mass surveillance. The proliferation of digital technologies and the gadgets that...
Kant and Democracy: Problems and Possibilities
Year 2024 was a historic year for democracy. It is estimated that over 4 billion people—that is, roughly half of humanity—voted in national elections...
Civil Capacity in the Age of Burnout
It’s been an exhausting few months. Most days, I just can’t read or think about the news. When the latest story—someone in power doing...
The Machiavellian Moment, Weak Covenantal Politics, and Co-existential Anxiety in the American Republic
The unpredictable character of contemporary history has become increasingly overwhelming, to the point that, when waking up in the morning, I experience the anxiety...
The Ethics of Loneliness
“I wanna go home where I belong'Cause now I'm just a lonely teenager
When I was sixteen, ran away all alone on a strayWhat can...
Imagination, the Engine of Possibility
When I was thirty, I told some coworkers about my plan to enter grad school to become a psychotherapist. We were technical writers for...
Musk’s Town Square Is Built on Sand
“Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity...
Wittgenstein and the Paradoxes at the Limits of Language
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