Free Speech is Necessary to Combat the “Administrative State”
Many people, especially on the "progressive" side of politics, seem in recent years to have given up on a combination of views about free...
How Work Alienates Us From Our Social Lives
What does your usual weekday look like? For many of us, academics and non-academics alike, it probably looks something like this. You wake up...
The Ambivalence of Resilience
This essay is dedicated to Peter Emmanuel Mara and Eds Abadam-Mara, my dear friends. Sending you love and strength.
There is something discomfiting about referring...
The Fugitive Slave Acts of 1793 and 1850: Law as a Tool of Oppression
On February 12, 1793, Congress passed the first Fugitive Slave Act entitled, “An act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service...
Can Critiques of ‘Speciesism’ be Disentangled from Ableism?
On November 4th 2020, The Guardian reported the proposed slaughter of 15-17 million mink in Denmark. 12 people had become infected with a novel...
Why Study Dead White Men?
It’s no secret that many revered and influential philosophers of the early and late modern periods were racists. They weren’t like many of the...
Why do reparations arguments fail?
This post is based on material that was presented at a colloquium session on Reparations at the 2022 APA Central. Frigault’s talk was entitled...
How a Ghost in the Library Got Me a Job in the White House
When I was in graduate school, I worked in the gifts department of the university library. My job was to process, sort, and acknowledge...
Where the Hell have Us White Philosophers Been? The Need for Peace, Love, and...
This piece is dedicated to the memories and legacies of the late Charles Mills and Lonel Woods. I miss you both dearly.
“So now that...
Why Law
Law is not the only way to try and control behavior. Psychological manipulation, brute force, and managerial direction are other alternatives. The complaints about...