SPOTLIGHT
THEORY
Alien Visitors and a Categorical Planetary Ethic
By: Dan Corjescu Imagine this rather typical SF scenario: alien invaders arrive on Earth. They are vastly superior in intelligence,
What Are Rights? Two Early Modern Attempts at an Answer
By: Brandy Harrison You only have to turn on the television or glance at the news headlines to encounter it:
The Political Correctness of ‘People of Colour’
For me, “people of colour” feels like a hiding place, as if I must hide an important part of me because it still isn’t deemed vital enough to define myself.
PRACTICE
Of Friendship and Politics
The First World War traumatized the political and cultural life of Europe, especially in the German speaking world. Heidegger's, Jasper's, Freud's, Junger's, Hesse's (not to mention Hitler's) inter-war works are unthinkable without this bloody caesura in European history. In a profound sense, the inter-war period in Germany (but not only) could be viewed as a psychic expression of what we would call today: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. One of the more notable of these dark intellectual manifestations was Carl Schmitt's The Concept of the Political. Yet Carl Schmitt is closer to us than we are usually likely to admit.
Thoughts Within the Coronising Siege
This is the 2nd pandemia of global capitalocene (1st was/is the temperature and sea-level rise, but it's so slow banks don't worry). So we’re in kinda „medical pre-fascism,“ for the rulers a very welcome excuse for the future: only police and pass-holders on the streets, no unruly demonstrators, approaching total control
The Bizarre Blindspot in “Planet of the Humans”
So, was the film "Planet of the Humans" a hit job on the environmental movement disguised by the filmmakers' phony claim to care about Mother Earth? Or was it an honest, get real, exposé of its assertion that, "The takeover of the environmental movement by capitalism is now complete"?
JUSTICE
Judge Posner on Meta-Ethics and Rational vs. Nonrational Argumentation
Moral theory is like a system of mathematics that has never gotten beyond addition.” — R. POSNER
Scalia and the Rule of Law
"The law," wrote Aristotle in his Politics, "is reason unaffected by desire". Perhaps no recent justice of the American Supreme Court was as concerned with this idea as the late Antonin Scalia.
The United States Supreme Court and Same-Sex Marriages: Did The Court Miss An Opportunity For Something Greater?
By: Amar Khoday Let’s give credit where credit is due. The United States Supreme Court did a tremendous thing for
ARTS & LETTERS
Racist Ideas, Justice, and Freedom: A Review and Reflection on Ibram Kendi’s ‘Stamped from the Beginning’
Stamped From the Beginning is filled with implications for political theory, both regarding distributive justice, and how we conceptualize freedom, showing limits to the typical bifurcation of freedom into its positive and negative variants.
Naked, Shivering Creatures: A Look Behind Burke’s “Pleasing Illusions”
Burke argues that life without such prejudice is brutish and crude. Sans prejudice we would be left with nothing but our “naked shivering nature,” alone and afraid.
Femininity and the Emasculation of Western Politics
In the past, proponents of equality resisted caricatures of the sexes and encouraged resistance to stereotypical perceptions of masculinity and femininity.