In this interview from March 2023, Agnes Callard spoke to the HPR about the place of the public philosopher, the value of anger, and the moral corruption of the oppressed.
It is important for us, as inheritors of our previous generations’ political epigenetics, to recognize, cultivate, and perhaps even celebrate the inherent performativity of our political action.
The work literary comedians do as we put down our magazines and turn on the television is more than funny; it asks fundamental questions about the way we receive, interpret, and internalize news and politics.
The American dismissiveness of the trials of the working-class has resulted in a system that actively harms its workers more than other developed countries.
Sarah Jaquette Ray is a Professor of Environmental Studies and the Program Leader of the Environmental Studies Program at California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt. Her work focuses on modern climate justice advocacy and trauma studies.
The most prolific human rights organizations in the United States and abroad value equal and unrestricted access to all maternal care, including abortion, as a human right.
It is crucial to remember that there are valid arguments for continued arts funding that align with conservatism — not just arguments rooted in economics, but in the moral framework to which the modern American conservative subscribes.
The United States remains one of the few nations among its allies who has refused to adopt the Rome Statute. To continue to not do so is to essentially treat the United States as above international law and above reproach. It must be ratified.
It is not just that the nationalistic plans of these people are morally reprehensible. A White ethnostate in the 21st century would fail. And it would fail spectacularly.
