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In democratic societies, politicians must perform relatability. Their clothing becomes a kind of soft theater: a red tie here, a...

Edmund Husserl, founder of phenomenology and patron saint of the Continental tradition, remains a revered figure among certain academic...

by John-Michael Kuczynski Abstract: According to Frege, n=Kn, where n is any cardinal number and Kn is the class of all n-tuples....

It’s often assumed that emotional detachment signals a lack of empathy. We meet someone seemingly indifferent to others’ feelings, and we...

There’s an old episode of Star Trek —technically the first episode ever made, the unaired 1965 pilot “The Cage”—that contains a...

We grow up thinking laws are real things—fixed, objective rules that govern society. Break the rule, suffer the consequence. Simple. But...

It is frequently asserted that there exists a significant correlation between the disciplines of philosophy and law, as evidenced by the...

Introduction Zen Buddhism means radically different things depending on where you’re from. For people in Japan, Korea, and other East...

We live in a world where processes trump purpose and compliance eclipses meaning . This is the paradox of proceduralism: a system...

Imagine two societies: Society A (Theocratic): Vengeance is holy if aligned with divine law. Society B (Procedural): Vengeance is...

by John-Michael Kucyznski For decades, American patriotism was animated by what appeared to be a deep moral belief in freedom. But what...

By John-Michael Kuczynski What did the American patriot of the 1950s believe in? He believed in "America," in freedom, in "the American...

By John-Michael Kuczynski This is not a conventional book review. I have not read Christopher McMahon's Authority and Democracy: A...

By John-Michael Kuczynski In a democracy, what counts as virtue? Not courage. Not toughness. Not principle. Not sacrifice. Not loyalty....

By John-Michael Kuczynski Let’s suppose you have a theocracy. Whatever its merits or defects, that system of government embodies an...

I haven’t read Seana Shiffrin's Democratic Law  (Oxford University Press, 2021). But I have read the abstract. And that’s enough to know...

By John-Michael Kuczynski When Western civilization accepted proceduralism as its moral core, it signed its own death warrant....

Until recently, the word developer  meant one thing: someone who writes code to bring someone else’s idea to life. The developer  was the...

By John-Michael Kuczynski Years ago, as a student at a major university, I took an ethics course taught by a well-known professor. One of...

By John-Michael Kuczynski In a strictly procedural legal system, innocence is not enough. Let that sink in. You can be factually,...