February 02, 2015
Inequality, Mobility, and Being Poor in America
That’s the title of a recent paper of mine that is now forthcoming in Social Philosophy and Policy, as part of a conference and symposium coordinated by Mark LeBar. I have…
That’s the title of a recent paper of mine that is now forthcoming in Social Philosophy and Policy, as part of a conference and symposium coordinated by Mark LeBar. I have…
This isn’t a post about whether the American Sniper film is propaganda, or whether Chris Kyle is a hero or a psychopath. Rather, it’s just about the ethics of sniping….
BHL’s Jacob Levy was interviewed on BBC’s The World about the January 2015 attacks on the offices of French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo.
Almost everyone knows who Ebenezer Scrooge is—“a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire;…
Given the season, I’d like to reflect on the “Merry Christmas-Happy Holidays” dispute, and about why people get so upset about the widespread use of either greeting. Sociologist of religion Peter…
In my paper “When May We Kill Government Agents? In Defense of Moral Parity,” I argue that the conditions under which we may justifiably kill democratic government agents, acting ex…