Joshua Stein is a doctoral candidate in philosophy at the University of Calgary, focusing on meta-ethics and a range of sub-disciplines ending in "ethics."
The novel coronavirus pandemic has thrown a lot of major political and economic issues into sharp focus. One of the greatest challenges of the pandemic is the endeavor to get the entirety of the world vaccinated. . Despite the production of several successful vaccines, many countries are still struggling to get
Senator Josh Hawley’s Tyranny of Big Tech sets out competing expectations. On the one hand, Hawley is a notoriously partisan figure with a clear political agenda and the aim of eventually becoming President. On the other hand, he’s sometimes praised as a relatively intellectually respectable member of the
The language of contemporary right-wing politics is the language of restoration and nostalgia. “Make America Great Again” was fundamentally an appeal to those values. Other writers, especially Black journalists, have noted that the “again” language requires an appeal to a historical period, but it’s frequently unclear what historical period
Whenever I set aside time to write about anti-Semitism in contemporary politics, I block out some time to make substantive updates for the inevitable anti-Semitic scandal(s) that will happen in between my first draft and the potential publication. In the contemporary environment, the probability of a major political figure