The absurdity and necessity of rules during war
During the invasion of Ukraine, we have heard frequently terms like ‘war crime’ and ‘just war’. In a fight to the death, when your...
The State of Climate Exception
In the two decades since the enactment of the Patriot Act, the concept of the “state of exception” has become common parlance in the...
Epistemic Injustice and Psychotherapy
(The following post is based on my talk, Epistemic Injustice in Psychotherapy, which was part of an APA Eastern symposium on Agency and Epistemic...
Mistreatment of Pregnant Women in US Immigration Detention
In this post, I share the main findings of my research on the mistreatment of pregnant women in US immigration detention. I presented these...
The Moral Case for the Development of Autonomous Weapon Systems
This blog post is a summary of a longer paper that is forthcoming in the Journal of Military Ethics. Thank you to the journal’s...
Luxemburg, Lenin, and Sankara on National Self-Determination
Introduction—National Self-Determination and the Contemporary Conjuncture
The questions of nationalism and national self-determination present a highly polarized contradiction within the global conjuncture. The tension of...
Survival and Self in Audre Lorde (on her birthday)
In her poem “Sacrifice,” Black feminist poet Audre Lorde (1934–1992) gives words of warning about inheritance and the transmission of knowledge across generations:
Unless we...
The Contingent Risk of Humane Entrenchment
In my recent book Humane, I outline a modest and narrow argument that making objectionable practices less objectionable—especially in the name of reducing suffering—can...
Everywhere You Look: On the Conspiracy of Experience and the Demands of Philosophy
The title of Adam McKay’s allegory for global warming and media satire, Don’t Look Up, is, in the end, quite literal in terms of...
What if Refugees Designed Asylum?
Polish soldiers met the people seeking asylum at the Poland-Belarus border with water cannons. As refugees froze to death in the woods, Poland declared...