An Act of Racist Terrorism
Doing her best to offer Republican spin on the horrific October 27 shooting at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue, Counselor to President Donald Trump...
In the Face of Climate Collapse, Resist Hope
The United Nations’ Paris Agreement, which went into effect in 2016, set a goal of containing global temperature increases between 1.5 and 2° Celsius...
What Makes a Life Meaningful?
In the 2010 book Meaning in Life and Why It Matters, Susan Wolf asks “what kind of lives are meaningful” and proposes that meaningful...
I’ve hosted “Ask a Philosopher” for two years. Here’s what I’ve learned.
For the past couple of years, Brooklyn Public Philosophers—the public philosophy event series I organize—has set up a booth at New York City farmers’...
Philosophy in the Contemporary World: Totalitarianism in Our Time
By Nathan Eckstrand
Several dystopian classics became bestsellers—1984, Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451, and The Handmaid’s Tale—following Donald Trump’s election, presumably by people who wished...
Negativity and Democracy: Marxism and the Critical Theory Tradition
Vasilis Grollios, Negativity and Democracy: Marxism and the Critical Theory Tradition, Routledge, 2017. (Routledge Advances in Democratic Theory Series)
Despite the crisis and the fact...
Ethics and Contemporary Politics: Trump Junior’s Emails and the Rule of Law
With the release last week of Donald Trump Junior’s emails, from which the public learned that he enthusiastically embraced the offer of a Kremlin...
Philosophy in the Contemporary World: Campus Illiberalism as Moral Fundamentalism
This series, Philosophy in the Contemporary World, is aimed at exploring the various ways philosophy can be used to discuss issues of relevance to...