Icons, Political Aesthetics, the Drag Last Supper, and Trump’s Fist
July 2024 brought us inescapable examples of the renewed power of pictures. Images of Trump rising up, fist raised, on the 13th after being shot…
Author: Crispin Sartwell
Crispin Sartwell is a philosopher, and writer, his youtube channel features "videos on life's greatest, most irritating questions: god, beauty, the state."
Democracy’s Demigods and Political Superheroes
Treating our politicians like superheroes, or for that matter supervillains, is not a good idea. It’s hard not to notice how badly people want someone…
Presidents, the Rule of Law, & the State of Exception
The Supreme Court’s immunity ruling is not a change of policy, but an acknowledgment of a dark reality. “The court effectively creates a law-free zone…
Neoliberalism or Squishy Totalitarianism: What Period Are We In?
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is an outstanding scholarly resource; I speculate that most philosophy professors consult it most weeks. As you might expect, it…
Choose Your Collective Personhoods
A plausible way to sort political positions into a set of coherent categories is by asking whether they recognize collective agents, and if so, which.…
Woke-Speak of Bosses at NPR and Academia Irks the Masses
By 2025, I assert, no one is going to talk the way NPR CEO Katherine Maher talks, ever again. No doubt the word ‘woke’ has…