Popular Writing
“Response to Aly and Stephens,” Quarterly Essay (Canada) 88(2022): 129-132
“Midterm Elections Reflect the Hodgepodge of US Voters,” The Conversation, November 2022
“Democratic and Republican Voters Both Love Civility,” The Conversation, October 2022
“Liz Cheney Trounced: ‘Black Sheep Effect’ and GOP Partisan Identity,” The Conversation,
August 2022
“Why Social Distance Can be Good for Democracy,” ABC Religion and Ethics (Australia),
August, 2022
“The Limits of Bipartisanship,” Divided We Fall, May 2022
“Democracy and the Polarization Trap,” Institute for Art and Ideas Magazine, January 2022
“America’s Political Polarization is a Threat to Democracy,” Chicago Sun Times, January 2002
“Not All Polarization is Bad,” The Conversation, January 2022
“Sustaining Democracy: The Moral Burden of Citizenship,” EUROPP, December 2021
"Does Democracy Exist?," 3 Quarks Daily, with Scott Aikin, November 29, 2021
"Why Social Distance Can be Good for Democracy," Zocalo Public Square, November 10, 2021
"The Moral Conflict of Democratic Citizenship," Robert Penn Warren Center Blog, October 18, 2021
"The Need for Socially Distanced Citizens," Heterodox: The Blog, September 17, 2021
“When Political Unity Becomes the Goal, Democracy Suffers,” Discourse Magazine, August 2021
"A Cynic's Take on the Games, "3 Quarks Daily, with Scott Aikin, July 12 2021
“Today’s GOP Demonstrates the Dangers of Partisan Conformity,” The Conversation, June 2021
"Clearing the Decks," 3 Quarks Daily, with Scott Aikin, May 17, 2021
"Institutionalizing Public Philosophy," 3 Quarks Daily, with Scott Aikin, April 19, 2021
“We Cannot Live Well by Politics Alone,” Discourse Magazine, March 2021
"Diogenes and a Puzzle for Social Critique," 3 Quarks Daily, with Scott Aikin, March 22, 2021
“A Worthwhile Unity,” Renew Democracy Initiative, February 2021
“The Paradox of Unity,” ArcDigital, January 2021
“The Polarization Dynamic,” Discourse Magazine, January 2021
"Deep Disagreement and the QAnon Conspiracy Theory," 3 Quarks Daily, wth Scott Aikin, January 25, 2021
“Political Enemies,” with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily, December 28, 2020
“Healing Our Political Divides Will be Very Difficult,” The Conversation, December 2020
“On Missing Academic Conferences,” with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily, November 30, 2020
“Democracy’s Hard Truths,” with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily, November 2, 2020
“The Agony of Victory, The Thrill of Defeat,” with Scott Aikin, Daily Nous, November 2020
“Trump Won the Debate Big,” with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily, October 5, 2020
“Straw Men and their Audiences,” with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily, September 7, 2020
“Democracy's Burden,” Culturico, August 2020
“The Democratic Virtues of Skepticism,” with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily, July 13, 2020
“Democracy: What’s it Good For?,” The Philosophers’ Magazine, May 2020
“On War and Sports Metaphors for Argumentation,” with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily, May 18, 2020
“Why Polarization Won’t Go Away,” ARC Digital, May 2020
“Coronavirus Myth Busting,” with Boudewijn de Bruin, Institute for Arts and Ideas Magazine, April 2020
“Democracy Cannot be Fixed,” with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily, April 20, 2020
“Why Politics can be Bad for Your Health,” Institute for Arts and Ideas Magazine, March 2020
“Why Civility Fails,” ARC Digital, March 2020
“Paradoxes of Stoic Prescriptions,” with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily, March 23, 2020
“Civility in Politics is Harder Than You Think,” The Conversation, February 2020
“How to Achieve Political Progress after Electoral Defeat,” Institute of Art and Ideas Magazine, January 2020
“Must Argument be Adversarial?,” with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily, January 27, 2020
"Democracy Demands Moral Citizenship," The Fulcrum, January 2020
“Was Socrates Anti-democratic?,” with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily, December 30, 2019
"Even in the Week Before an Election, We Should See Each Other as More Than Our Politics" i News, December 10, 2019
“The Owl of Minerva and the Problem of Public Philosophy,” with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily December 2, 2019
"Pragmatism Endures," with Cheryl Misak, Aeon, November 2019
“Why You Should Leave Politics off the Thanksgiving Menu,” The Fulcrum, November 2019
"What Civility Isn't," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily, October 7 2019
"Why More Democracy Isn't Better Democracy," OUP Blog, September 23, 2019
"Partisan Divide Creates Different Americas," The Conversation, September 20, 2019
"Politicizing Tragedy," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily, August 12, 2019
"Political Polarization is about Feelings, not Facts," The Conversation, July 31, 2019
"The Debasement Puzzle," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily, July 15, 2019
"Democracy Can Be Overdone," Institute of Arts and Ideas Magazine, July 4, 2019
"The Puzzle of Cicero's Philosophy of Religion," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily, June 17, 2019
"What Polarization Does to Us," Open for Debate, May 30, 2019
"How Does Belief Polarization Work?," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily, May 20, 2019
"Epictetus and the Problem of Philosophical Progress," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily, April 22, 2019
"The Nomination Lottery," Liberal Currents, April 12, 2019
"The Burning Man Fallacy," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily, March 25, 2019
"Against Bipartisanship," 3:AM Magazine, March 14, 2019
"Epicureans on Squandering Life,"with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily, February 25, 2019
"A Puzzle about Ancient Cynicism," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily, January 28, 2019
"Our Polarization Problem," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily, December 3, 2018
"NPC Memes and the Politics of Solipsism," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily, November 5, 2018
"Civic Enmity," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily, October 8, 2018
"Argument Repair," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily, September 10, 2018
“Civility as a Reciprocal Public Virtue,” with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily, July 16, 2018
“There’s No Such Thing as Fake News (And That’s Bad News),” 3:AM Magazine, June 9, 2018
"On 'Fake News'," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily, May 21, 2018
"Intellectual Blame," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily, April 23, 2018
"The Owl of Minerva and the 'Fallacy Fallacy'," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily, March 26, 2018
“Political Hooligans,” with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily, December 4, 2017
“Must We Survive Thanksgiving?,” with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily (November 6, 2017)
“Two Concepts of Polarization,” with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily (October 9, 2017)
"Democracy is Like Fun," Aeon, October 6, 2017
"Moral Tragedy?," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily (September 11, 2017)
"Deep Disagreements and the Rhetoric of Red Pills," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily (August 41, 2017)
"On Arguments by Analogy," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily (May 22, 2017)
"A Problem for Intellectual Pluralism," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily (April 24, 2017)
"Deep Disagreements and Argumentative Optimism," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily (March 27, 2017)
"The Owl of Minerva Problem," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily (February 27, 2017)
"'Alternative Facts' and the Necessity of Liberal Education," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily (January 30, 2017)
"Stoicism for Dark Days," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily (January 2, 2017)
"Post-Truth Politics?," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily (December 5, 2016)
"Democratic Rehab," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily (November 7, 2016)
"Pick Up the Pieces," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily (October 10, 2016)
"Two Paradoxes of Public Philosophy," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily (September 12, 2016)
"Swamping," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily (July 11, 2016)
"Spitballing," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily (June 20, 2016)
"Diagnosing the Critics," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily (May 23, 2016)
"A Puzzle About Metaphilosophy," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily (April 25, 2016)
"The End of the Party," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily (March 28, 2016)
"The Immorality of 'The Will to Believe'," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily (February 29, 2016)
"Criticism and Debate," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily (February 1, 2016)
"The Myth of Simple Truths," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily (January 4, 2016)
"Welders and Philosophers," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily (December 7, 2015)
"Stop Reading Philosophy!," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily (November 9, 2015)
"On Some Yogisms," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily (October 12, 2015)
"Tu Quoque Arguments and Their Relevance," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily (September 14, 2015)
"Making a Case," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily, August 17, 2015
"Political Name-Calling: A Defense," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily (April 27, 2015)
"The Puzzle of Political Debate," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily (March 30, 2015)
"The Red Ribbon Argument for Skepticism," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily (February 2, 2015)
"The Ethics of Citizenship," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily (December 8, 2014)
"Fallibilism and its Discontents," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily (October 13, 2014)
"Diving Hiding?," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily (September 15, 2014)
"Arguing to Win," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily (August 18, 2014)
"Semantics and Pragmatics," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily (May 26, 2014)
"Transcendental Arguments and Their Discontents," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily (March 3, 2014)
"The Impossibility of Satan," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily (February 3, 2014)
"A Belated Reply to Plato," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily (January 6, 2014)
"On the Idea of a Dialectical Fallacy," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily (December 9, 2013)
"Logic and Dialogue," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily (November 11, 2013)
"Why Study Logic?," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily (October 14, 2013)
"Arguing about Argument," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily (September 23, 2013)
"Public Philosophy?," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily (July 24, 2013)
"Why Epistemology Matters," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily (May 27, 2013)
"Don't Feed the Trolls," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily (April 29, 2013)
"Winning at Argument," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily (March 4, 2013)
"Ancient Paradoxes and the Good Life," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily (February 4, 2013)
"The Problems of Philosophy," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily (January 7, 2013)
"On Reading Weird books in Public," With Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily (December 10, 2012)
"Democracy and Ignorance," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily (November 12, 2012)
"Cynicism and Argument," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily (October 15, 2012)
"Civility and Public Reason," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily (September 17, 2012)
"Civility in Argument," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily (August 20, 2012)
"The Argument from Ugliness," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily (July 23, 2012)
"Only Philosophers Go to Hell," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily (May 28, 2012)
"The Emptiness of Pluralism," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily (February 6, 2012)
"The Pluralism Test," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily (January 9, 2012)
"The Case Against Santa," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily (December 12, 2011)
"Searching for Pluralism," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily (November 14, 2011)
"On the Gods of Horses," withScott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily (October 17, 2011)
"Philosophy and Failure," withScott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily (September 19, 2011)
"Things You Cannot Believe," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily (August 22nd, 2011)
"The Dignity of Skepticism," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily (July 25th, 2011)
"Men of Straw," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily (June 27, 2011)
"The Eclipse of Pragmatism," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily (May 30, 2011)
"Dishonest to Whom?," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily (May 2, 2011)
"Clifford and James on Evidence and Belief," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily (April 4, 2011)
"Take Two," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily (March 7, 2011)
"Accommodationism and Atheism," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily (February 7, 2011)
"Some Thoughts about Poe's Law," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily (January 10, 2011)
"An Open Letter to the National Punditry," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily (December 13, 2010)
"Waging War on Christmas, to Save Thanksgiving," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily (November 15, 2010)
"Opposition to the 'Mosque': An Atheist Perspective," with Scott Aikin, 3 Quarks Daily (September 27, 2010)
"The Simple Truth," on This Side of the Pond (The Cambridge University Press blog)
Philosophy in the United States, bibliographic essay, authored with John Lachs, US Department of State, 2005