Essays
Symptoms Disguised as a Diagnosis
MacIntyre diagnosed modern moral incoherence correctly. He misidentified the cause as philosophical rather than material and his remedy thus fails.
More to Lose Than Their Chains: Class Rule and the Problem of Worker Ambivalence
For roughly 150 years, the socialist and communist left has organized around one foundational assumption: that our proximate fight is with capitalism. I believe this assumption is wrong
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.