Author: Joshua Miller
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Rascal News
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Rascal News is an exciting new venture in tabletop games journalism. Building on the 00s’ New Games Journalism for videogames, the editors/authors are Lin Codega, Rowan Zeoli, and Chase Carter. A recent interview with Kimi Hughes discusses “How Has Actual Play Changed…
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Maybe the Horse Will Sing: On the Value of Putting Things Off
Nasreddin got himself into some serious legal trouble–the reasons are lost to time. Before the king sentenced him to death, Nasreddin asked for a delay because he was the only person in the world who…
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Why Philosophy of Crime and Punishment, Now?
I am teaching this course again. Every year it changes, and this year I hope it changes a lot. Here’s what I said about this today, our first day of classes: Any story about crime…
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Beyond Sociology 101
The University of Toronto’s Sociology Department posts the reading lists for its PhD comprehensive exams.
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Strangers to Ourselves
For my money the notion of self-estrangement is the fundamental insight of psychology.
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Varieties of Stoicism
What worries me about Silicon Valley’s mindfulness stoicism is the sense that it combines all the worst elements of world mastery and manliness with the stoicism of the weak: acceptance of injustice, the embrace of…
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Joshua Miller’s Top Ten Things that Arendt Got Right About Political Theory
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I wrote this little primer at the bottom of a long discussion of the Schocken Books editions of Arendt’s work, and then reposted it a while back on Facebook. It’s been popular, so I’m reposting…
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Impunity and Policing
“My child is dead, and someone must pay.” There are no words that make so much sense to me as these. People say “I can’t imagine what it would be like”—but I can. I do.…
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Is Deliberate Underpolicing a Problem?
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Propublica thinks so: What Can Mayors Do When the Police Stop Doing Their Jobs? Rises and falls in crime rates are notoriously hard to explain definitively. Scholars still don’t agree on the causes of a decades long nationwide…
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Come Work in Prison Education at Georgetown University
Georgetown has been committed to teaching in prisons in one way or another for almost forty years. The support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will allow us to redouble that commitment, with a bachelor’s…