Atheist Ethicist

279 days until the start of class. Don’t mind me. I only stopped by to drop something off. From Blame to Punishment: Disrupting Prefront...

I dislike it when people steal my ideas before I even have a chance to come up with them. It's so rude! The biggest culprits in histor...

279 days until the first day of classes. I have just finished John Stuart Mill's book On Liberty . I seriously recommend reading it....

Make America Great? Let's look at this. When you think of a great country, what is it that you think of? One way to imagine greatnes...

Do you like the idea of a "Third Party"? This, I think, is an idea for a third party that can actually make substantive change. ...

284 days until I will be attending my first class – I hope. Readers of previous posts know that I have been reading David Boonin’s book Th...

286 days until I start classes. I hope. Trump's victory will likely make it the case that I have no option but to be a serf working ...

This post is written in response to many of the social media posts and comments I have encountered in the last few days. I also want to ma...

"Give Trump a chance" they say. I already have. Trump had over 500+ days to prove that he was a decent human being with sound ...

The Fine Art of Effective Protest There are three things wrong with these current round of protests. (1) They are not nearly big enough....

As the finger pointing begins, to aid discussion, I would like to establish some ground rules. (1) Direct one's criticism at a trait o...

This morning, a lot of Americans are waking up to a more hostile world. Muslim Americans, Latino Americans, women, are going to find thems...

Today is election day. The fate of civil community hangs in the balance. It seems odd to say that. Important issues were on the table in p...

294 days until the start of class. I must say, my introduction to the Philosophy department on Friday did not go as I would have liked. I ...

The first day of class is in 298 days – but I am visiting the philosophy department tomorrow. As I work on editing my paper on a moral ave...

299 days until I attend my first class, and 49 hours until I introduce myself to the philosophy department. If I get a chance to meet any ...

301 days until the start of class. That’s 43 weeks. 4 days until I introduce myself to the Philosophy department. I have been busy rewri...

304 days until classes start. 7 days until I introduce myself to the department. Yes, I get nervous. I had a realization this morning. I...

306 days until the first day of classes. Motivated by comments made by David Jocquemotte, I have made a couple of attempts to get my previ...

A member of the studio audience pointed me to a podcast of a discussion between Sam Harris and Peter Singer, where they spent the first few ...