Absolute Banana Republic Crap: Reflections on the “Assault” on the Capitol
As scenes of Trump supporters storming the US Capitol filled media outlets and social media on January 6th, shocked journalists repeated again and again...
Parable of Change
Georgia is where my sister lives with her family. Her oldest child, my goddaughter, epitomizes Black girl magic. She is a leader. She is...
Caring for Democracy
The events at the US Capitol building in January 2021 remind us that democracy must be carefully cultivated. It is easy for violence, power,...
On Hiding Faces
3D scanner depiction of a masked face by the artist Lukas Einsele (2020) (permission granted by artist)
Faces are hidden for many reasons. We hide...
On Protest and Hope as Social Inquiry
In 1948, Marxist philosopher C.L.R. James, addressing Black political militancy, insisted “that the independent Negro movement that we see today and which we see...
Public Philosophy Editors on Building the Field
Earlier this year, we asked for your questions for editors of public philosophy venues. We previously shared their answers to your questions on pitching...
Report from Richmond’s Monument Wars: Public Art, National Trauma, Being with the Dead
Richmond, VA, the former Confederate capital and major slave trading center, is an active experimental laboratory for removing and transforming old so-called “monuments,” creating...
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...