Enlightenment Noise
Steven Pinker recently penned a piece reflecting on all the noise surrounding his recent book, Enlightenment Now. He says, You
What Is America?
What is America? The question has been asked endlessly. And I’m not going to answer it here. Asking “what
Tendencies and Contingencies: On Social Constructivism
Recently, Canadian philosopher Joseph Heath wrote an essay on social constructivism in which he tries to clean up some ambiguities
The Road to Citizens United, Revisited: A Review of 'We the Corporations'
In the 2010 Supreme Court case Citizens United v. FEC, the Court went out of its way to rule on
A Revolution in Favor of Taxes and Standing Armies
The standard story behind America’s founding goes something like this. In an effort to break the chains off tyranny
Richard Rorty's Love or Money Liberalism
Paul Crider’s recent piece Intersectional Liberalism is good evidence for how expansive the word “politics” has become. He says,
Democracy and Its Discontents
In 2010, Ken Minogue penned his last full-length book The Servile Mind: How Democracy Erodes the Moral Life. As
Liberalism and Social Action: The Relevance of John Dewey
“The only sin,” Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote in 1841, “is limitation.” It was in this spirit (and under this influence)