Essays

Where the Logic Is Most Complete: Animal Use and Meritocratic Reasoning
Speciesism is where meritocratic reasoning operates most completely. That's why the unlearning should start here.

Hierarchy, Text, Violence, Religion
Innocence and the License to Kill: How Class Rule Produces Its Moral Categories
This essay examines one such category — innocence — and argues that it is the form in which meritocratic reasoning is applied to the question of who may be harmed.