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2026 8

  1. Reproducing civilization
  2. On becoming less full of shit
  3. Why do sociologists think that they are critical theorists?
  4. Harari vs. Henrich
  5. Naomi Klein’s husband doubles down on public grocery stores
  6. Actually, Democrats do need a Project 2029
  7. The Outliers
  8. What colourblindness hath wrought

2025 13

  1. Anatomy of a kvetch
  2. The prospects for left-wing populism
  3. Are cooperatives more virtuous than corporations?
  4. Populism fast and slow
  5. Kōhei Saitō’s tsunami of confusion
  6. Not quite leveling down
  7. Some thoughts on violence
  8. Illness is a social construct
  9. My two cents on Abundance
  10. Highbrow climate misinformation
  11. Why philosophers hate that ‘equity’ meme
  12. Observations on the U.S. constitutional crisis
  13. Moral Responsibility for Backlash

2024 16

  1. How Steve Bannon baited the American left into overplaying its hand
  2. Americans enjoy conflict
  3. Key stages in the decline of academic Marxism
  4. John Rawls and the death of Western Marxism
  5. Combatting extremism
  6. Racism: the harm reduction approach
  7. U.S. Democrats need to discipline their own coalition
  8. A critical theory of (or for) America
  9. Canadians should think of higher education as an export industry
  10. Comment on the Values and Ethics Report to the Clerk of the Privy Council
  11. Decline, what decline?
  12. What does a modern witch-hunt look like?
  13. Debating privatization
  14. Americans need to find some way to debate Black nationalism
  15. Auguste Comte memorial lecture
  16. Why philosophers should worry about cancel culture

2023 12

  1. A simple theory of cancel culture
  2. The futility of arguing against identity politics
  3. The Challenge of Policing Minorities in a Liberal Society
  4. Privatize McGill
  5. Why the Culture Wins: An Appreciation of Iain M. Banks
  6. The Kendi bubble bursts
  7. The paradox of American multiculturalism
  8. What does “representation” mean in a society with rapidly changing demographics?
  9. What I've been up to
  10. White psychodrama: the extended hypothesis
  11. What is the difference between a settler and an immigrant?
  12. Coming soon