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Survey Article: When and What Is the “Hinge of History”?
https://politicalphilosophyjournal.org/article/id/24674/
Published: December 22, 2025 21:57
The concept of "the hinge of history" suggests a unique period in which human actions have unprecedented and potentially irreversible consequences for the long-term future of civilization. This paper critically examines the coherence and utility of this…
The Value of Climate Despair
https://politicalphilosophyjournal.org/article/id/19788/
Published: December 12, 2025 08:50
Given the current and future suffering associated with human-made climate change and the lack of political action in response to it, it seems only natural to feel despair. However, despair has a bad reputation among climate ethicists and in the wider…
How Prisons Silence
https://politicalphilosophyjournal.org/article/id/25033/
Published: November 27, 2025 03:49
Free speech is a core value of liberal democracies, but for 1.8 million incarcerated Americans, it is largely inaccessible. Incarcerated people have scarce access to phone calls and in-person visits, are prohibited from using social media, and face severe…
Over-intelligibility
https://politicalphilosophyjournal.org/article/id/24931/
Published: October 28, 2025 14:26
Contemporary philosophers have argued that framing new concepts can bring about both moral and epistemic progress. In this paper, I argue that such intelligibility also has downsides. This paper introduces the phenomenon of [...]
Survey Article: Unfounded Pessimism about Electoral Accountability
https://politicalphilosophyjournal.org/article/id/23037/
Published: October 28, 2025 08:00
Faced with the failures of existing democracies, many democratic theorists conclude from recent empirical work in political science critical of the functioning of electoral institutions that citizens are too ignorant to hold office-holders to account and…
Police Response to Uncivil Anti-Police Protests
https://politicalphilosophyjournal.org/article/id/24071/
Published: October 14, 2025 11:50
Recent literature in political philosophy has argued that protesting against police brutality can permissibly involve uncivil conduct, including damage to property and confrontation with police officers. If this view is correct, how should the police…
A Democratic Right to Political Strikes
https://politicalphilosophyjournal.org/article/id/18607/
Published: September 30, 2025 08:47
Democratic politics in practice often lags far behind the democratic ideals that justify democracy in theory. Where democratic theory postulates the equality of citizens and the accountability of elected officials, democratic practice is often…
What Can We Learn from the Diversity Trumps Ability Theorem?
https://politicalphilosophyjournal.org/article/id/23914/
Published: September 10, 2025 22:30
The Diversity Trumps Ability theorem suggests that, under certain conditions, more diverse groups outperform groups of more individually competent members. Despite initial excitement about the theorem’s application to democratic decision-making, critics…