Why We Need a Formal, Mandatory, and Remunerated “Citizen Lobby” | Blog of the APA At the end of the twentieth century, the end of the Cold War suggested that freedom and democracy were the name of the game. The launch of the World Wide Web in the early 1990s promised a free flow of...

Why We Need a Formal, Mandatory, and Remunerated “Citizen Lobby”

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Can We Blame Rioters? Political riots raise important moral questions. When we see or hear about a riot, we are prompted to consider whether the cause is just and whether rioting is a justified means of protest. Some belie...

I was invited to write a blog post for the American Philosophical Association on a tricky question: Can we blame rioters who get swept up by the crowd? I argue yes, but show that standard theories struggle with this.

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