Some Stray Thoughts on Trigger Warnings from Someone with a Weird Phobia
I don’t claim to be anything close to an expert in psychology, but from my understanding phobias and trauma, including PTSD, operate in similar ways on…
Solidarity Forever: Graduate Student Unionization and the Law in a Time of Activism
As a law student currently studying labor law, who also has a PhD in philosophy, I have a lot of strong views about the role universities…
Radical Aging, Part 1: The Legacy of Maggie Kuhn
This past year I’ve been reading everything I can find about the aging activist and founder of the Grey Panthers – Maggie Kuhn. After being forced into…
Who’s Being Coddled Here?
“What does it require for a subperson to assert himself or herself politically? To begin with, it means simply, or not so simply, claiming the moral…
Pandora’s Dox
By now you know that Ashley Madison — the Christian Mingle of infidelity — was hacked last month, and at long last the hackers have publicly…
Guest Post: A Defense of Rihanna’s “American Oxygen”
The following is a guest post. The author, Kevin S. Jobe, received his PhD in Philosophy from Stony Brook University in March 2015 and is developing…
Guest Post: Do We Believe (In) Violence?: The Mourning in Baltimore
The following is a guest post. The author, William Paris, is a graduate student at Penn State University studying 20th Century Continental Philosophy as well as race…
Misrepresented Evidence and Early Genital Normalization Surgery
This post originally appeared on the IJFAB Blog and has been posted here with permission. One of the most urgent and important issues in the treatment of neonates…
What if the SAE Frat Boys Are, In Fact, “Real Sooners”?
Last week, a video of who appeared to be fraternity brothers from the Oklahoma Kappa chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) chanting that “there will…
Why Chait is Wrong on “Political Correctness”
Jonathan Chait’s recent essay on “political correctness” is confused along several dimensions. I can’t discuss them all here, but I’ll try to explain some of why…