Wounds and Lies that Bind: The Need to Believe By Marcia Pally It’s two weeks since the seditious riot at the U.S. capitol. It’s two months of Donald Trump’s refusal to concede an election whose Read more…
Elephants, Taxes, and Where We Live By Marcia Pally Last week, we had a torrent of news about Donald Trump’s taxes—profits, losses, and massive tax avoidance. This was just about the time I was looking Read more…
This is Not a World of One: Our Separability-Amid-Situatedness By Marcia Pally What’s the disconnect? I’m sitting in Washington Square Park in N.Y., which I treat as my “backyard” as its curving paths and grand Read more…
In the Midst of a Global Pandemic: A Conversation about Dependency, Interconnectedness, and Planetarity 15 May 2020 Dorothea Green Lecture Series, Steven J. Green School of International & Public Affairs The current Covid crisis, among other Read more…
There’s Something Wrong With Iowa—Or With the Species? By Marcia Pally There’s something wrong with Iowa. Those of us who still think the US elections represent the will and choice of the people have spent Read more…
It’s the Genes! It’s the Hair! It’s “Cooperativity”: An Evolutionary Account of Populism By Marcia Pally It’s a virus, a friend of mine said about the far-right wins in the May elections for the European Read more…
Getting Out of and Into the Common Good By Marcia Pally I’m writing this blog just on returning from a conference hosted by the Thomist Center in New York. The center aims at scholarly research Read more…
The “Worthy Opposition”: Learning to Learn By Marcia Pally We are going deaf. We worry about political polarization, the rise of the radical right and so on, but there’s a deafness afoot that is pre-political Read more…
Uncoupling Democracy’s Forms from their Purposes: A Crisis for Governance and a Boon for Populism by Marcia Pally I’m still pondering this bit of data: Americans who, under the proposed Republican replacement for Obamacare Read more…
