The more active users are on social media, the more polarized they are! The opinions of the these extreme users are filling your newsfeed, but they are not representative of most citizens or even most social media users--which are far less polarized! arxiv.org/pdf/2603.02102…

RIP Susan Haack. I got to know her early in my career, mainly due to our shared interest in CS Peirce. Like most philosophers, she could be prickly; but unlike many, she was always genuine. news.miami.edu/as/stories/202…

Unsolicited Writing Advice It helps to keep in mind that writing typically isn't the process of turning your thoughts into sentences on a page. It's rather the process of figuring out what your thoughts are by writing sentences on a page and then deleting most of them

Wrapping up my contribution to a symposium forthcoming in Critical Review on my *Civic Solitude*....

Check out the Aeon philosophy prize for early career researchers - offers the chance of intensive mentoring in writing public philosophy aeon.co/philosophy-pri…

The line-up for the forthcoming Critical Review symposium on CIVIC SOLITUDE... a fabulous collection of critics

Our recent PSPB paper showing that liberals and conservatives have different perceptions of victimhood (AoVs) is generating quite a bit of discussion on r/science. Short summary of the results (and 🔗 ) below 🧵

Great piece in the NYT by Hélène Landemore on citizens' assemblies: nytimes.com/2026/04/07/opi… In that piece, she introduces and discusses the Connecticut Citizens' Assembly on Property Taxes, one of the first large, state-supported citizens' assemblies in the United States, which

Donald Trump’s false claims about the Iran War, Epstein files, tariffs and inflation have left some supporters who have traditionally believed all he says feeling duped and abandoned. Why now? theconversation.com/as-a-philosoph…

Interesting take. As a philosopher, I’m convinced that Trump isn’t lying − he’s doing something worse msn.com/en-us/news/opi…

A little piece I wrote for The Conversation U.S. proposing that the president's most ridiculously false statements aren't really lies... theconversation.com/as-a-philosoph…

For an excellent discussion of what's happening, see this analysis by Robert B. Talisse: theconversation.com/as-a-philosoph…

Sometimes a falsehood is a lie. Other times it is a show of contempt, as Robert Talisse explains: theconversation.com/as-a-philosoph…

🤬How can democratic societies endure—and even flourish—amid deep and persistent disagreement? 🤝TPN member Robert Talisse sat down with provost Vanderbilt University Cybele Raver to talk about how we communicate through political disagreement and make practical suggestions on how to

Trump isn't lying about grocery prices and tariffs — he's expressing contempt for the people who must live with the consequences, argues a political philosopher. theconversation.com/as-a-philosoph…

If you need something to be hopeful about today--this is a good one. theguardian.com/world/2026/apr…

Trump isn't lying about grocery prices and tariffs — he's expressing contempt for the people who must live with the consequences, argues a political philosopher. theconversation.com/as-a-philosoph…

In the latest episode of the Quantum Potential podcast, Provost C. Cybele Raver talks with Robert B. Talisse, W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt, about how democracy can endure amid political division. vanderbilt.edu/quantumpotenti…

New piece in TIME. There is a fundamental distinction between managing students and teaching students to manage themselves. The first instills obedience; the second, agency. Read here: bit.ly/48jrBFv

My work is discussed in this article by Deborah Kenny in the latest TIME time.com/article/2026/0…