Copyright Infringement and Free Bread
Copyright infringement, although often regarded as theft, seems to be a rather strange kind of property infringement. If I steal your car, or your...
How Climate Change Threatens Meaning in Life
It’s understandable that many discussions about the climate crisis focus on existential threats. Claims about human extinction combine the terrifying prospect of mass death...
Using the ‘Plague Management Model’ to Understand The Panoptic Surveillance Amidst Coronavirus: A Foucauldian...
In Madness and Civilization (1961), Foucault discussed leprosy, an epidemic that troubled Europe profoundly. Although, with monitoring and isolating the population, leprosy vanished at the end...
Four Theses on Fake News
Fake news undermines free speech culture by impairing our ability to develop and express our thoughts. To fix the problem, we need to police...
Louisiana’s Idiosyncratic Economic Incentive Programs and Cancer/Death Alley
Industrial Ad Valorem Tax Exemption Program(ITEP) in Louisiana
Recently, a UN Report vindicated claims of environmental racism in Louisiana that local environmental groups and civic...
The Power of Concepts under Authoritarianism: The Life of Arendt’s Banality of Evil in...
The racist killing of Georg Floyd in the Summer of 2020 created waves of protests not only in the U.S. but all over the...
Immunoprivilege: Past, Present and Future
With the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine, more and more countries and companies are turning to immunity passports (or certificates) to verify whether one...
Missing and Diverging Information in COVID-19: Complex Causes, Built Environments, and Public Engagement
Information changes, and, often, divergence is involved in the process—perhaps as a catalyst for more adequate information, or maybe just as fuel for the...
Policing and Criminal Oppression
One of the unfortunate realities of working on philosophy of crime and punishment in the United States is that there are always new instances...
Tourism, Colonialism, and Disease
A recent bonne nouvelle for the jet-set is that the European Union will be reopening its borders to American tourists. The pandemic put a...