Political Philosophy Monthly Talks

About the Trump Victory

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Donald Trump will be our president for the next four years. We are living through unprecedented times. It’s hard not to see this as a huge protest vote—with several sometimes competing things being protested. The effects of globalization. Job insecurity. Alienation from others and anxiety about the future. Anxiety about rapid and continuous cultural change. Anger over elite privilege. The list goes on. I doubt if Donald Trump is going to change anything in a direction that fixes those problems. The fact that Elon Musk loves him, and Jeff Bezos is willing to play ball with him by shutting down the Washington Post editorial board says that he’s ultimately very friendly to large corporations. The stock market is going up.

September Political Philosophy Monthly Chat with Dr. Laurie M. Johnson

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Our Political Philosophy Month Chat is BACK! This month Laurie will be discussing some of the ideas of Jean-Jacques Rousseau on the origins of inequality. His Discourse on the Origins of Inequality. Learn about how his ideas fit in the trajectory of Western political thought! Register on Eventbrite or join us on Patreon!

June Political Philosophy Chat: Thomas Hobbes

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Thursday, June 1 at 7 p.m. US Central Time, live on Zoom, join Laurie for this month’s Political Philosophy Chat on Thomas Hobbes. She will be discussing the influence of Thomas Hobbes’s social contract theory on future liberal developments. Check out her video for more information!  Register by supporting us on Patreon or on our Eventbrite … Read more

Tonight: Political Philosophy monthly talk: Aquinas and the Market

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Laurie will be live on zoom tonight at 7 p.m. US Central Time to discuss a bit about Aquinas and natural law and then to focus on his views on property. She’ll compare his views on private property with the neoliberal view as exemplified by Milton Friedman. To that end, part of the session she’ll be reading a section from the draft of the book she’s currently writing. The chapter is “Ideological Strong-Arming” and she spends some time discussing how Friedman helped set up the conditions for what we now call “capitalist realism.”