The attack by Hamas on October 7, the destruction and mass killings in Gaza, the assault on Ukraine, the torture chambers in…
Censorship is permissible when private parties target speech that threatens harm greater…
This article explores the democratic complexities encountered by researchers and academic institutions…
About the book The Life and Death of Freedom of Expression by Richard Moon, published by University of Toronto Press…
For many viewers, cinema is a form of paid entertainment to relax or escape. In academic circles, cinema is mainly defined as a means of…
The SAVE Act could block millions from voting through strict ID rules—despite no evidence of widespread noncitizen voting in the U.S.
Donald Trump’s return to the presidency is expected to redefine…
The Artificial Intelligence Index Report 2024 offers a comprehensive analysis…
An analysis of internet shutdowns as instruments of state repression,…
The Living Planet Report 2024 reveals a staggering 73% decline…
The effectiveness of legislative efforts to curb dark money, the role of…
As millions of Americans are learning, it isn’t hard to tell when you are living in an autocracy. The signs are clear...
Winner of the 2022 Merze Tate – Elinor Ostrom Outstanding Book Award.
How did enslaved and free people of African descent navigate oppressive legal systems to carve out spaces of autonomy?
Winner of the 2022 James A. Rawley Prize in Atlantic History
Winner of the 2023 Merze Tate – Elinor Ostrom Outstanding Book Award
As we observe our current world order becoming less cohesive, more volatile, socially fractured, politically polarized, and hence arguably less…
No one with their eyes open can currently say that religion plays no role in international politics at this time.
About the Book The Walls Have Eyes: Surviving Migration in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, by Petra Molnar, published by…
Nearly 12.5 million enslaved Africans were transported to the Americas during the era of the Atlantic slave trade...
In the fourth century BCE, the Greek philosopher Aristotle labeled sleep “a border-land between living and not living.”
Our old planet is now like a fragile crystal, shimmering yet perilously close to cracking...
We live in a time of immense juxtaposition. Recently the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA)…
If we have learned anything from the past four decades of non-progress in the face…
Extreme climate change and the despoliation of our planet. Threats of global war and nuclear…
The attack by Hamas on October 7, the destruction and mass killings in Gaza, the assault on Ukraine, the torture…
As millions of Americans are learning, it isn’t hard to tell when you are living in an autocracy. The signs…
A Molotov cocktail arcs through the night in Santiago during the 2019 protests against inequality; a baton slams into a…
Since Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, there’s been a tectonic shift in Arctic diplomacy and security...
The idea of a similarity between technology and religion is not novel. Influential thinkers from Karl Marx to Martin Heidegger…
In April 2025, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 22—the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act. Introduced as part…
Why is studying philosophy vital in the age of AI? This question gains urgency as artificial intelligence rapidly reshapes how…
The conceptual status of political identity has undergone a significant transformation. No longer reducible to a set of preferences over…
A term that once aimed to name and restrict the most toxic forms of public expression now exists in a…
Democracy is built on the idea that law, not code, governs human life. Yet as artificial intelligence takes on increasingly…
In political theory, few concepts have been as controversial—and as enduring—as Carl Schmitt’s notion of “the political.”
Across contemporary political debate, the term “ideology” is used increasingly to accuse rather than to explain. It no longer refers…
For many viewers, cinema is a form of paid entertainment to relax or escape. In academic circles, cinema is mainly…
According to Surfshark's 2024 report on internet censorship , internet shutdowns have become a central tactic of authoritarian control over…
My book introduces contemporary philosophical work on moral judgment originating from France, Germany, and the Anglo-American world...
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