Most Recent Essays
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What's Wrong with War Crimes
There is a desire, among theorists and non-theorists, to keep things simple. Everyone likes a simple tool that works in many cases or a simple user interface on a website. Simplicity is a virtue, and all virtues turn into vices due to lack or excess of. ...
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A Sketch of the Problem of Abstracta
On the way to one of France's high society members pied-à-terre, the narrator of In Search of Lost Time is in a one-sided conversation about the various origins of French words with the aim of uncovering to the meaning of the names of some of the towns they were passing by. ...
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Hegel is Back
I am not sure of how many, if any, job postings there have been of recent past where the role is just for Hegel. Plato, Aristotle, Kant, or some combination of early moderns seem to be the standard large canonical figures of the West that warrant dedicated teaching roles. Whether or not you're a fan, Hegel is back. ...
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In the wreckage
All around him, everywhere he could see was ruined buildings. If he walked farther there were more ruined buildings. These were buildings of past empires run by despots, who maintained a short period of power only to fall into ruin. ...
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Not your Father's Reactionary
Nietzsche is a reactionary. If a reactionary is someone who wants to bring about some prior ethical values, virtues, societal norms, or way of life in response to some egalitarian, utopian, progression vision, then Nietzsche is a reactionary. ...