The Practical Theorist

Going forward, any artist or writer or curator who creates a film or book or work of art or museum exhibit aimed at the general public that treats the Holocaust in isolation is artistically and morally bankrupt.

The two basic strategies open to America are to behave more cooperatively with others in the short term, hoping to gain back his dominance in the long term, or, conversely, to be more ruthlessly assertive in the short term, more openly than he has been ev…

I’m a white cishet normatively abled male from an upper middle-class background.

The path to universality is through particularity.

If a certain way of thinking appears self-evident to us, this is no evidence of the truth of that way of thinking.

Knowledge can never truly “be apolitical”.

Science faces a legitimation crisis because the metanarratives which formerly sustained it have lost their appeal.

Almost all widely distributed movies are either capitalist fantasies or aristocratic fantasies.

One shifts from an argument to a negotiation.

relativism does not prevent us from making assertions; it only changes how we understand "what it is that we are doing" when we make assertions.