Saturday, September 21, 2019

Private Goods and Love, Human and Divine

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I was thinking today about the fact that it's precisely the lesser nature of private goods as opposed to common goods that makes them u...
Tuesday, July 16, 2019

Star Trek Deep Space Nine: Or, There Are Weasels Under the Coffee Table: Or, Is 19th Century Liberal Imperialistic Utopianism Not All It's Cracked Up to Be?

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Before I get finally and totally buried in the depths of the Dissertating Lifestyle, I present to you, my dear, long-suffering readers,...
Wednesday, July 3, 2019

American National Politics and the Justice Casino

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American national politics makes more sense when you realize that, while shouting about urgent justice issues is an important element in h...
Saturday, June 15, 2019

In Defense of the Awful, Terrible, No-Good Terrifying Alienated Surrealism of the First Two Seasons of Star Trek the Next Generation

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Alright, stop the presses: I want to write something in defense of the first two seasons of TNG. Now, before everyone stones me thr...
Sunday, May 19, 2019

Rights Discourses, Theft, and Violence

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The trouble with conceiving of politics as solely or predominantly an arena for the assertion and ratification of rights is that it inevit...
Monday, April 29, 2019

On the Zizek/Peterson Debate

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I really think that the analysis of figures like Zizek, Peterson, and other popular contemporary mass-media thinkers and rabble-rousers de...
Friday, November 16, 2018

Pakleds and Klingons and Riker Rapidly Losing His Mind, Oh My!

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So once again, after many years (months? minutes? I dunno, folks, I'm bad at math), the much-heralded, much-longed-for return of the N...