Samuel Alito’s Histories of Freedom
In early May, Politico published a leaked draft of Samuel Alito’s forthcoming opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which affirms Mississippi’s law...
Introducing the Ethical Issues in Public Philosophy Series
Times are changing. Roads may soon be populated by self-driving cars. The meat on sale in the supermarket may, before too long, be grown...
Entangled Empathy and the Project of Changing the World
The world is a far from perfect place. There are so many problems confronting us – wars, poverty, injustice, racism, climate change. And it’s...
Acknowledging Intra-Minority Conflict: Anti-Asian Hate Crimes and the Intersectionality of Race and Class
Introduction
In light of the recent reports of increased rates of hate crimes, especially violent hate crimes, against Asian Americans, I am motivated to think...
Everyday Moral Stress and the COVID-19 Pandemic
During the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States in March 2020, I ordered Chinese take-out via a delivery app. I...
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...