Rebelling or Revelling?: Humor as a Sisyphean Task in Mystery Science Theater 3000, Part...
The now classic movie-riffing series Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K), and its spinoffs such as Rifftrax, can tell us something about how to deal...
Tyla, Coloureds, Color, and Culture Part III
American YouTuber Armon Wiggins went viral on X after referring to Tyla as an “uppity African,” an insult with which the broadcaster and rapper...
Hamilton’s Folly: The U.S President’s Pardoning Power and Questions of Forgiveness
“The benign prerogative of pardoning”
At the birth of the United States, Alexander Hamilton argued in Federalist 74 that “Humanity and good policy conspire to...
From Human to Cyborg: Art, Technology, and the Redefinition of Human Identity
Throughout the past century, technology's integration into the human body has redefined our understanding of identity, autonomy, and what it means to be human....
Democracy and Future Generations: A Philosophical Minefield
Democracy and future generations have a thorny relationship. On the one hand, democratic countries provide better for the well-being of future generations than autocracies...
The 49th Parallel: Canadian Philosophy and American Imperialism
In the weeks leading up to his second inauguration as U.S. President, Donald Trump began talking about “annexing” several countries, including Panama, Greenland, and...
Loneliness and Human Nature
John Dewey, in his 1938 essay, “Does Human Nature Change?”, answered in a way consistent with his presupposition of Darwin’s theory of evolution, i.e....
Is It Wrong to Stop Helping Trump Supporters?
One of the many takeaways from Donald Trump’s re-election is that America is, has been, and will remain deeply divided along political lines. And...
Introducing the New Public Philosophy Beat Editor: Martina Valković
For the last couple of months, I have been transitioning away from my role as editor of the Public Philosophy series at the Blog...
Taming and Tolerating Uncertainty
Democracy is existential to its core, and the social question is key to its survival. Since large-scale transformations of society—including migration, climate change, war,...