Atmospheres of Parenthood
Anyone who has visited the home of parents with a newborn baby can recognize from the outset a specific kind of atmosphere that seems...
Unironically Good? Hegel, Irony, and Nicolas Cage
When we think about irony, what comes to mind is often something like Socratic or dramatic irony. The first describes instances in which a...
The Ethics of Refugee Protection
Around 42.5 million refugees worldwide have been forced to flee their own states and are unable to return because of severe threats to their...
Why Casting Isn’t Coming Out: Heated Rivalry and Sexual Orientation
The actors in Heated Rivalry don’t leave much to the imagination. While many viewers tuned in for the steamier shower, penthouse, or cabin scenes,...
Protesting For Our Humanity
Every Sunday for two years, from October 2023 to October 2025, protesters gathered in the center of Melbourne, Australia, to march against Israel’s war...
The Oltrant: A Philosophical Hypothesis Beyond Duration and Memory
Can something meaningful exist in moments that do not persist? I began reflecting on this question from a concrete experience. During an extended interaction...
When Should We Argue?
Don’t feed the trolls arguments.
When someone is wrong—on the Internet or in the coffee shop—the temptation to engage can be strong, even though it...
Feeling Like Oneself
When I was at graduate school I read a passage from John Campbell that lodged itself somewhere in my brain, where it has remained...
A Black Detective in the White House: The Residence
For Bob Grunst, the only twitcher I know
“Unpredictable recurrence is not a sign of language's ambiguity but is a fact: of language, as such,...
Writing Matters
Does writing have a future?
This eerily prophetic question was posed by media theorist and phenomenologist Vilém Flusser back in 1987. Amidst the ever-expanding use...