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...
Why Study Dead White Men?
It’s no secret that many revered and influential philosophers of the early and late modern periods were racists. They weren’t like many of the...
Why do reparations arguments fail?
This post is based on material that was presented at a colloquium session on Reparations at the 2022 APA Central. Frigault’s talk was entitled...
How a Ghost in the Library Got Me a Job in the White House
When I was in graduate school, I worked in the gifts department of the university library. My job was to process, sort, and acknowledge...