Trump’s Rhetoric Is Dangerous Even If He’s Ineffective
Many fear the policies that Trump will pursue, but even if he fails to enact them, he will have had a dangerous effect on our politics…
Liberalism and Social Action: The Relevance of John Dewey
If liberalism is to remain true to its commitment to freedom in all its forms, what we ought to regret is the damming up of individual expression as well as the limiting of “rugged individualism” to mere “exercise in the economic area…
Disability and Invisibility
High-functioning sick and disabled people are, by definition, the ones most able to take part in society and work. These are the people with milder instances of health problems, or those with disabilities that are aided significantly by relatively small and inexpensive equipment (e.g. wheelchairs, prosthetics, hearing aids, etc.) or people who can function acceptably well with small…
How Hot Takes Expand Our Capabilities
Hot take culture expands the resources available for improving our understanding…
LC Podcast #2: Sam Hammond on Capitalism and Social Justice
Can these two possibly taste great together…
Partisanship, Popper, and Painfully Hot Takes
Here’s something I’m ashamed of: Sometimes when I see a movie or read a novel and…
Beyond the Freedom of the Void
The realization that even negative liberties depend on institutions – social constellations of positive liberty relations – lends greater credence to progressive…
Gender as Art
An account of gender essentialism, gender constructivism, and a proposed alternative: gender expressivism…
The New Class Divide
We have moved from a class divide centered on those misused by the system to those discarded by it…