Showing posts with label social equality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label social equality. Show all posts
Monday, June 29, 2020

Anti-Racist Values And Decision-Making On Campus

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Like a lot of other universities around North America, my university has been talking over the last few weeks about anti-racism and what uni...
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Monday, June 8, 2020

Policing Practices, Law and Economics, And The Values Of Justice And Efficiency

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In the full story of how things in American policing became so completely fucked up, I would like to read an analysis th...
Monday, May 18, 2020

In Which My Colleague And I Read Classic Pandemic Literature

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When the lockdown started, my colleague Doreen Fraser and I were both seized by the same impulse: to read classic historical pandemic lit...
Monday, May 11, 2020

Lockdown, The Singularity, And The Idea of Post-Humanism

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Back in 2010, when we were younger and more naive, a bunch of people were excited about something they called The Singularity, a time in the...
Sunday, April 26, 2020

Coronavirus, Capitalism, and the Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

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Content warning: this post gets a little dark by moments, so if you're not in the right frame of mind, maybe read it later, or don't...
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Tuesday, August 14, 2018

Anthony Trollope And The Texture Of Human Unhappiness

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As you may know, I am a fan of the novels of Anthony Trollope. For those of you who aren't Victorian-novel-enthusiasts, Trollope was a c...
Tuesday, June 19, 2018

How Is It Possible That Several-Hundred Dollar Handbags Feel Essential To Adulthood?

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For me, one of the most striking things in the aftermath of Kate Spade's suicide was learning how many other people thought of her bags ...
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Tuesday, May 22, 2018

The Bus Riding Experience And Living In Late Capitalism

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Last weekend I went to Vernon, Connecticut to visit some family members. Vernon is kind of near East Hartford, kind of in the middle of Conn...
Tuesday, May 8, 2018

Why Do Canadians Love Consumer Loyalty Programs?

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When I moved here in 2004, one thing I did not anticipate about Life In Canada was the ubiquity of consumer loyalty programs. As Canadian...
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Tuesday, November 21, 2017

Ethics in Tech and the Humanities Classroom

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I don't know if you saw this piece in the Guardian the other day, about how part of the problem with modern technology and its role in...
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Tuesday, November 7, 2017

The Opioid Epidemic As A Crisis Of System, Not Individuals

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Like a lot of people I was gripped by this New Yorker story about the Purdue Pharma company and its role in creating and perpetuating the o...
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Tuesday, October 10, 2017

I Went Down The Ethical Cell Phone Rabbit Hole

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Fairphone: modularity FTW. I want a new phone. I don't need a new phone. I have a perfectly serviceable iPhone 6 that is about two ...
Tuesday, September 19, 2017

Selective Implementation Of The Algorithmic Ideal Is Intellectually Dishonest: Hillary Clinton Book Review Edition

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The thing that got me wildly, disproportionately pissed off this week was the news that Amazon had been deleting one-star reviews of Hillar...
Tuesday, August 8, 2017

Ethical Perspectives On Social Equality And Innovation In the US Health Care Debate

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There are many reasons people favor market-based health care systems over alternatives like universal care and single-payer, and this post i...
Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Retribution, The Limits Of Punishment, And The Question Of Unenlightened Motives

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Cells of the prison on Alcatraz Island. Posted to Flickr by marine_perez; used under Creative Commons licence. In last week's New ...
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