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Philosophy of Politics

The Projection-Hypocrisy Two Step
What is Authoritarianism?
The Impeachment Fantasy
Are Wild Horses Sovereign?
The Ideology of Political Pragmatism
Sadly, There Can be No Right to be Heard
How a Minority Rules
Who to Vote for
Kavanaugh and Democratic Defeat
Stop Comparing Trump and Obama
A Note on Russian Ads
Philosophy of Taxes: a Primer
Facebook Should Shut Itself Down
A Letter to Single Issue Abortion Voters
Trump and Pence’s Shared View on Women
How to Apologize for a Lie
Fake News: Why Mainstream Journalism is Often Part of the Problem
America’s Collective Normalcy Bias

Pandemic

The Pandemic Body
Arendt on Thinking and the Coronavirus Pandemic
Locating Freedom in Quarantine
What does ‘Stay Home’ Mean?
How to Listen to Scientific Experts

Ethics

Who is Responsible for This?
Should you be a Person of Principle?
Is Veganism Racist?
Second Thoughts on Dignity
The Coming Oppression
A Letter to Single Issue Abortion Voters
Trump and Pence’s Shared View on Women
Socratic Method and Conversational Violence
On Dignifying One’s Neighbor

Technology

On the Distinction between Online Life and Real Life
Understanding Marshall McLuhan
The 4 Possible Futures of Automation
Brief Reflections on the Use of Technology in Education
Facebook Should Shut Itself Down
Facebook’s Good Intentions 
The Specter of Machine Intelligence
The Coming Oppression

Relationships

Open Relationships are for Everybody
How to Break Up with Someone
The Dissolution of Cheating: Kevin’s Heart
“Bury me an Honest Man”: On the Politics of Black Non-Monogamy

Meta Public Philosophy

The What Philosophy Owes Society Series:
I. What Philosophy Owes Society
II. Anti-Intellectualism
III. A New Public Philosophy
IV. Better Teachers
Wake Up, Sam Harris
Sam Harris and Jordan Peterson Meet
Politics and Public Philosophy
The “Intellectual Dark Web” Trilogy

Philosophy Criticism

The Meaning of Authorship
Don’t Read Harry Frankfurt’s “On Bullshit”
What Philosophers Mean by ‘Clear’
Philosophical Gaslighting

Race

3 Precautions of Interracial Coalition Building
The Myth of Economic Anxiety

Hypocrisy

The Projection-Hypocrisy Two Step
How Hypocrisy Works
From Hypocrisy to Fascism

Hannah Arendt

Arendt on Thinking and the Coronavirus Pandemic
A New Report on the Banality of Evil
From Hypocrisy to Fascism
Do we Want our Predictions to Fail?

Gun Control

If I’m Killed in a Mass Shooting
It Won’t be Different this Time