Public Philosophy

Public Pieces

“Shame on You! Moral Grandstanding Is More than Tiresome. It’s Pushing People to Extremes.” (with Brandon Warmke), Persuasion

“Moralising to Impress” (with Brandon Warmke), The Philosophers’ Magazine

“The Immorality of Moral Showcasing” (with Brandon Warmke), Discourse

“The Art of the Grandstand: Solving Social Problems Comes with a Built-In Paradox” (with Brandon Warmke), City Journal

“It’s Our Own Fault that Politicians Don’t Come Up with Policies that Actually Fix Problems” (with Brandon Warmke) MarketWatch

“Moral Grandstanding and the Will to Power” (with Brandon Warmke), The Philosopher

“Oscar Acceptance Speeches: When Moral Outrage Verges on Grandstanding” (with Brandon Warmke), CNN.com

“Moral Grandstanding” The Academic Minute

"Why There Are Costs to Moral Outrage” (with Brandon Warmke), The Conversation (republished by Newsweek, Salon, HuffPo, Live Science).

“Moral Grandstanding: There's a Lot of It About, All of It Bad” (with Brandon Warmke), Aeon.

• Spanish translation in Chilean magazine Santiago: “Grandilocuencia moral: estar del lado de los ángeles”

A public talk for the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Public Affairs, April 2018.