What We Need to Know About the Far-Right and Stop the Steal
Alain Badiou and the False Contradiction
Lancet COVID-19 Commission Statement on the occasion of the 75th session of the UN General Assembly
“But to construct that resilience, a philosophical change in how we care for each other and our environment must be made.”
Editors, The Lancet (British Medical Journal)
Murder War Violence Submission
The Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, and Other Anxious Men
Authoritarianism and Relativism Replace Science
The pandemic has revealed the life-threatening dangers when relativism is the privileged philosophy of how we make sense of things.
Winner-Takes-All: Can We Care About Cooperation?
In sport and politics winners celebrate! They spill onto the streets and fields.
Big Pharma: Undermining Democracy & the Public Health
There is little doubt that the pharmaceutical industry, worldwide, has unimaginable power.
The Problem of Character in our Current Political Climate
What Trump attempts to do, and to a significant degree succeeds in doing, is purging thinking and deliberation from his world. This is especially evident in his attack on the thinking organs of public life…
We Should Care About Science
Healthy skepticism is important. We must always remain open to the possibility that we may be wrong (i.e., we are fallible). The Trump administration, those in his inner circle, and those influenced by them, have crossed the line. It is not healthy skepticism. It is a childish mocking of science.
Democracy in Peril: Voting Rights and the Electoral College
How do we care about voting?