Public Philosophy Editors on Working with Writers
Earlier this year, we asked for your questions for editors of public philosophy venues. Last week, we shared their answers to your questions on...
Never Mind the Camus: Sartre’s Typhus is the Existential Plague Fiction We Need
Albert Camus has been having a good pandemic, sixty years after he died. Copies of The Plague have sold faster than publishers can print...
Public Philosophy Editors on Pitching
Earlier this year, we asked for your questions for editors of public philosophy venues. We are thrilled to publish the first of three parts...
Our Age of Institutional Decadence
By 555 A.D. Emperor Justinian I was close to reconquering most of the territories in Italy and North Africa lost 100 years earlier when...
How (Not) to Think About Anti-Feminist Women
The woman hangs on, not with the delicacy of a clinging vine, but with a tenacity incredible in its intensity, to the very...
Challenges for Women in Online Philosophy: Performativity and Clout
Despite believing in the value of online philosophy, I myself have limited philosophical engagements online. Online philosophy is a vast terrain, spanning from philosophy...
Boredom and Injustice
The emotional price of being poor: How boredom harms those who are less affluent
It seizes us at home or at work, in open...
A Happy Immoralist: The Case of Richard Rich
A Man for All Seasons, Robert Bolt’s 1960 play about Sir Thomas More, is usually interpreted as a defense of living and dying in...
The Warped Epistemology of Conspiracy Theories
The novel coronavirus pandemic has spawned numerous conspiracy theories, sometimes replicating faster than the virus itself. Some people have rumored that SARS-CoV-2 was engineered...
Kierkegaard on Being Happy Again After You’ve Lost Everything
Risk is central to any meaningful life, according to Kierkegaard. If we want our lives to have significance, we must commit to projects that...