Emotional Labor: More Than Just a Feminist Buzzword
One of the best things about working in a bookstore is that publishers send you advance copies of upcoming books as part of their promotional campaigns. When an advance copy…
The Lost Art of Civil Discourse
The rising disregard for civil discourse is felt in general conversations addressing every topic: from education to business to relationships. It is affecting friends, colleagues, family members, strangers and peers.…
The Taboo of Suicide: A Philosophical Review
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. —Albert…
How Games Journalism Lost Its Soul
In the first decades of the 2000s, when the violent video game debate was at its height, games journalism (aimed at an audience of avid gamers) was at the forefront…
Double-Edged Jewish Humor: The Jimmy Kimmel Show’s Chanukorn
Jewish humor is a deeply ambiguous phenomenon. Yes, it can be very funny. But the thing that makes it Jewish is the somber undertones that permeate it. Jews are trained…
Belief is Not Action: Why Peterson’s Theory of God is Wrong
As a Christian apologist, Jordan Peterson has done much to show the literary and psychological value of Biblical stories and the Judeo-Christian tradition. However, while he avoids metaphysical speculation, he…
Negativity and the Need for Optimism
Generic cynicism makes us feel hip and alternative even as we slip along with our fellow citizens into a morass of indifference.—Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny In many ways, the world…
Manchester City, Abraham Lincoln & True Sublime Heroism
Brazennose street in Manchester, an innocuous thoroughfare linking Albert Square and Deansgate, is home to a little known piece of Lancastrian history. There resides an unlikely but imposing four-meter-high bronze…
Why There Will Not Be a Beige Future: Skin Color, Genetics, Race and Racism
There is more in heaven and earth than can be dreamt of in any human philosophy. This is why science is not philosophy. Those who map the skies, observe the…
A Review of Quinn Slobodian’s “Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism”
Well, I would say that, as long-term institutions, I am totally against dictatorships. But a dictatorship may be a necessary system for a transitional period. At times it is necessary for…
MDMA: The Cure for Sophistry?
Of late, the radical Left’s raids on rationality have increased in both frequency and potency. Scarcely any proponents for reason find themselves outside the blast radius. Fallacious hit pieces and…
Testing the Limits of Universalism in Science
Science traditionally aspires to be universal in two respects. First, it seeks fundamental knowledge—facts which are universally true. Second, it aims to be impersonal in practice; identity should be irrelevant…
Identity: Knowing What It’s Like To Be Something
Like most people who hang around on social media, now and again I come across an exchange which goes like this: “I think such-and-such,” “How dare you think such-and-such? You’re not…
Getting Triggered at a White Privilege Conference
“White. Male. Cis. Straight. Rich. Citizen. Christian. Able-bodied. Educated.” The young white woman at the front of the classroom listed off the traits she claims can shield you from oppression.…
Making Sense of Immigration: Why Multiculturalism Is at Odds with Integration
When it comes to immigration, we are, essentially, faced with two conflicting options: multiculturalism and integration.
The Power of Trump Nostalgia
“I’m not sure which is more damning: the emptiness of his happy-talk campaign or the cynicism that it implies,” Democratic nominee Walter Mondale said of President Ronald Reagan seven weeks…
Humanity or Sovereignty? Potentialism, A Road Map For the Twenty-First Century
Political systems, as much as practically possible, should allow human beings to develop their potential.—Lyndon Storey This statement is hardly controversial. You would struggle to find anyone who wanted to…
Rawls’ Veil of Ignorance and the Liberal Case for Equality
The political left—and egalitarian projects more generally—are widely associated with identity politics and what is sometime caricatured as the philosophy of postmodern neo-Marxism. Pundits and commentators from all parts…
