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Lines, Damned Lines, & Jeremy Davis

Values Judgments the podcast is available on Apple Music, Spotify, and the Substack app. Please subscribe! Jeremy Davis is an assistant professor of…

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October 2023

The Aesthetics of Setlists

I don’t usually like to post in such quick succession, but I wanted to share with you all a piece I had a lot of fun writing that just went live…

Oct 31, 2023 •

27 theses on the current situation in Gaza

I am not an expert on the Israel/Palestine conflict. My qualifications to speak on the history of the topic are alarmingly pedestrian: I read and wrote…

Oct 19, 2023 •

June 2023

The Question of Fairness in Student Debt Cancellation

Perhaps the dullest title ever, but bear with me.

Jun 30, 2023 •

November 2022

My Five Years on the Philosophy Job Market

[This primary audience for this post is those already in academic philosophy. But perhaps others will find something of interest here too—particularly…

Nov 14, 2022 •

June 2022

A Jurisprudence of Doubt

The majority opinion in the 1992 Supreme Court case, Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which reaffirmed Roe v. Wade, begins with this memorable line…

Jun 27, 2022 •

January 2022

On selective historical appropriation and Dr. MLK Jr.'s philosophy

(Plus: a belated Best of 2021)

Jan 17, 2022 •

August 2021

On intellectual humility

[Warning: this post contains mild spoilers for those poor souls who have never been to a Ripley’s Believe it or Not! museum.] In an exhibit at the…

Aug 21, 2021 •

June 2021

Travel is Political

Jun 21, 2021 •

March 2021

My completely unsolicited guide to the Oscar nominees

I certainly do not consider myself a ‘film buff’ by any stretch. (The enormous list of classic, canonical films I have not seen stands as evidence of…

Mar 21, 2021 •

February 2021

Life is short, praise the groundhog

Groundhog Day, 2020 A year ago tomorrow, we went to go see Punxsutawney Phil. You surely know about him: he’s the famous groundhog—the ‘prognosticator…

Feb 1, 2021 •

November 2020

the guilt in joy

(I promised these would be infrequent. I’m hopeful this is infrequent enough for you!) In the before-times, when we lived in New York, and at the…

Nov 1, 2020 •

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