Featured
Moral Luck and the Judgment of Officials
What responsibility do judges bear in assessing individual's moral culpability for outcomes that are the product of luck.
Back to School: America’s Uncontrolled and Unethical Experiment
Public officials have described the return to classrooms as an "experiment," but this description fails to appreciate the guidelines for studying protected populations.
Opinion
Is It Right to Hope for a Politician’s Death?
Neither revenge nor negligence can justify hoping for the worse or expressing joy at other's misfortune.
We’ve Got Politics Wrong
Political principles or party affiliation? Our political discourse tends toward tribalism first, convictions second.
Culture
The Ambiguous Perspective of HBO’s ‘Succession’
How the show situates the viewer and the relation it takes to its subject exposes familiar workings of power while making us complicit.
Cardi B, Ben Shapiro, and the Pop Culture vs. High Culture...
Who is to say what constitutes high art or even what qualifies as art in the first place?
Debate over the Anti-Racist Reading List
How should we approach the literature of racial justice, and how far can it take us?
Recent
In Defense of Mill
Contrary to popular belief, Mill's commitment to speech is capable of distinguishing good faith from bad faith efforts.
Is Microtargeting Good for Democracy?
A tool for political inclusion may simply be a way to stoke division.
Medical Privacy and the Public’s Right to Know
How can we determine when public interest should trump politician's personal rights?
Under Discussion: Voting Best Interests and Democratic Legitimacy
How can we ever divine a political mandate from the jumbled voices and contradictory preferences we find in the ballot box?
Under Discussion: Is It Rational to Be an Ignorant Voter?
What does it take to fulfill one's duty to participate in democratic elections?
Under Discussion: Democracy Demands More than Your Vote
The obligations of a democratic citizen extend beyond registering a presidential preference every four years.