Featured
Individualism in the Time of COVID: The Rights and Wrongs of...
Whose rights are at stake when businesses require patrons to don face masks? How should we define the boundaries of our individual freedom?
Is Biden Trapped by Identity Politics?
Is identity politics threatening to further fracture our fragile bonds or is it the path to reconciliation?
Retweets, Endorsements, and Indirect Speech Acts
How should we understand the speech act of retweeting? What are we signaling and what are we not? When, if ever, might condemnation be appropriate?
Opinion
The Politics of Imponderables
Is the moral righteousness we experience over questions of trade-offs a blessing or a curse? Can that outrage be productive or must it be suppressed?
Under Discussion: On Cancelling “Cancel Culture”
What are all the sources that might imbue a thing with meaning, and how might we separate our endorsement of any one of those strands from the thing as a whole?
Under Discussion: Platforms of Power and Privilege
Not all voices carry the same weight, and these disparities in clout complicate our assessment of what can and cannot be said.
Culture
‘Bon Appetit’ and the Politics of Food
Food isn't as apolitical as we tend to assume, it's fraught with concerns regarding access and questions like what constitutes "ethnic" cuisine.
Shockingly Funny: The Morality of Eric Andre’s Comedy
Humor is often used to lampoon social and political beliefs, but how defensible is it when others are made the butt of the joke.
White Skins, Black Masks: Voice Acting and Representation
Combating the underrepresentation of people of color in the entertainment industry is an important goal, but the way we go about it is equally important.
Recent
The Short- and Long-Term Ethical Issues of Working from Home
The return of pre-industrial working conditions promises upheaval. What challenges should we expect? What gains might we hope for?
The Politics of Imponderables
Is the moral righteousness we experience over questions of trade-offs a blessing or a curse? Can that outrage be productive or must it be suppressed?
Rent Crisis Responses
From rent strikes to mortgage freezes, all sorts of responses to the financial crisis have been proposed. But renters and landlords are separated by a few key differences.
‘Bon Appetit’ and the Politics of Food
Food isn't as apolitical as we tend to assume, it's fraught with concerns regarding access and questions like what constitutes "ethnic" cuisine.
Under Discussion: On Cancelling “Cancel Culture”
What are all the sources that might imbue a thing with meaning, and how might we separate our endorsement of any one of those strands from the thing as a whole?
Under Discussion: Platforms of Power and Privilege
Not all voices carry the same weight, and these disparities in clout complicate our assessment of what can and cannot be said.