Producers, actors, politicians, businessmen, and professors: acclaimed men in these professions have recently been exposed as perpetrators of sexual violence.…
Charisma and seduction
power
Becoming nothing
An acquisitive mind would no doubt insist that the measure of man (and of everyone and everything else) is growth.…
Power and civility
Mere Civility’s final rendering of the link between civility and the future is suggestive; it excavates a democratic ethos from…
Abusing rhetoric
Many of these documents are appalling in the way that bureaucratic recitals of torture are appalling, in the way that ledgers…
Secularism in Antebellum America
Forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press, a "pioneering account of religion and society in nineteenth-century America" by John Lardas…
Affect vs. global totality
The tricky thing about global imaginaries unlike other social imaginaries is the issue of totality. Whereas other kinds of social…