On July 9, 2021, outside her home in Salem, Oregon, Misty Castillo called 911. Inside was her mentally ill son, Arcadio Castillo, who was “high” and agitated. She told the emergency dispatcher that her son was “drunk, high, and mentally ill.” Arcadio was wielding a knife. Misty, however, wanted the police to know and take ..read more

Academia in English-speaking countries has gradually become more and more international, regularly recruiting PhD students and postdoctoral researchers from abroad. This has led to complaints that non-native speakers (NNS from hereon) of English are disadvantaged and/or experience discrimination with regard to their academic standing. In our discipline, this claim of “linguistic injustice” has culminated in ..read more

Wonder is the mind's excitement and proceeds by getting lost. And that is what democracy calls on us to do together ..read more

Katherine finally explains why she left college for a year: she found it fake. But now she's going back, and she is on a mission, slow and steady ..read more

1. Crisis of Reproduction In the short film, Loin du 16e (Far from the 16th), Walter Salles and Daniela Thomas evocatively portray what we might identify as a contradiction within social reproduction. Lasting less than five minutes, the film depicts an otherwise unremarkable day for the nameless young woman that is its central protagonist: she awakens ..read more

For old age to be understood differently, our whole life needs rethinking. And so, too, the philosophy that is humanly satisfying ..read more

Intergenerational integrity reshapes the academy, beginning with the Earth that gave rise to us ..read more

Talk about “evil” is beside the point ..read more

I do chores for my cooperative. I love doing them, since they keep me real in college. But the real issue is the structure of community behind them ..read more

For a new mini-series on interpersonal relationships in philosophy, I explain why it's important not to identify with the discipline of philosophy ..read more