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The Anti-Empathy Playbook

How evangelical Christian nationalists wage cultural warfare, create the permission structure for dehumanizing vulnerable communities, and threaten our…

Jul 13, 2025 • Mona Mona

The Informatics Of Domination

Re-reading Donna Haraway's Cyborg Manifesto in light of Yasha Levine's Surveillance Valley.

May 10, 2025 • Mona Mona

The Radical Future of Women's Friendships

What the incorporation of women's friendship ideals into "companionable marriage" can teach us about the radical potential of women's friendships.

Feb 15, 2025 • Mona Mona

Philosophical Shadow Journal

Announcing the Philosophy Publics chat discussion questions for the month of January.

Jan 5, 2025 • Mona Mona

Who's Afraid of Empathy?

A response to Gurwinder's "Why Empathy Makes Us Cruel & Irrational"

Dec 23, 2024 • Mona Mona

Top 15 Very Readable Works In the History of Western Philosophy

These are my pick for the top fifteen, most readable works in the History of Western Philosophy.

Nov 22, 2024 • Mona Mona

Feminist Transformations

What Is So Good About Becoming A Feminist? I invite you to find out for yourselves.

Nov 14, 2024 • Mona Mona

A Primer on the etymology, history, ideas and practices of Phenomenology

Oct 22, 2024 • Mona Mona

Fun With Philosophy

Why Do Philosophers Enjoy Arguing As Much As Pigs Enjoy Mud Baths?

On the virtues of not being so agreeable and challenging others to think.

Aug 10, 2025 • Mona Mona

We Are Now Reading Revolutionary Theory, Not Self-Help

20 self-help books paired with revolutionary theory books you could be reading instead.

Jun 11, 2025 • Mona Mona

What Experiences Would You Sell?

Mindscaping Philosophy Journal Prompt: Imagine a world where experiences serve as currency that you can trade with others.

Mar 23, 2025 • Mona Mona

Philosophical Shadow Journal

Announcing the Philosophy Publics chat discussion questions for the month of January.

Jan 5, 2025 • Mona Mona

The Death Of Philosophers (Revisited)

Philosophy is preparation for death, so how have philosophers faced death throughout the millennia?

Dec 26, 2024 • Mona Mona

Arguing Is Good

There is good in arguing, even if it is not persuasion. Here is me riffing-off of "Arguing Is Bullshit" by David Pinsof @everythingisbullshit

Dec 17, 2024 • Mona Mona

What Does Thinking Feel Like?

I recently posted what I thought was a rather strange question to Notes, and it turns out many of you had things to say!

Nov 15, 2024 • Mona Mona

Thoughts with Paper

What can a piece of paper teach us about what thinking is for?

Oct 25, 2024 • Mona Mona

SERIES: The Problem with Work

Must Work Suck So Much? | Part 5: Production and Reproduction

Kathi Weeks on the interdependence between work and marriage in our capitalist patriarchal state.

Nov 4, 2025

Must Work Suck So Much? | Parts Three & Four: Subjugation and Subjectification

Kathi Weeks shines a light on our modern work woes, running an analogy between work and marriage. In this piece, I present the carrot and the stick of…

Oct 22, 2025 • Mona Mona

Must Work Suck So Much? | Part Two: Depoliticization

Kathi Weeks shines a light on our modern work woes, running an analogy between work and marriage.

Oct 14, 2025

Must Work Suck So Much? | Part One: Private, Individiual Choices

Kathi Weeks shines a light on our modern work woes.

Oct 9, 2025

SERIES: On Empathy and Care

Towards A Phenomenology of Empathy

A primer on embodiment and empathy through Maurice Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception.

Jul 29, 2025 • Mona Mona

The Anti-Empathy Playbook

How evangelical Christian nationalists wage cultural warfare, create the permission structure for dehumanizing vulnerable communities, and threaten our…

Jul 13, 2025 • Mona Mona

The Meaning of Life? Care.

Not language, not rationality, but Care is what makes us human. Looking at how Care underlies all that we are according to Martin Heidegger.

Jun 18, 2025 • Mona Mona

The Christian Right’s Anti-Empathy Crusade II

The Politicization of Anti-Empathy in Christian Evangelical and White Nationalist circles.

Jun 13, 2025 • Mona Mona

SERIES: On Friendship

Friendship As A Way of Knowing

Friendship allows for shared standpoints, and gives us access to new insights about ourselves, others, and the world that expands our horizons, and our…

Mar 12, 2025 • Mona Mona

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Friendship and Philosophy

A recording from Philosophy Publics' live video, with Mona Mona. Topics: On Friendship and more.

Mar 6, 2025 • Mona Mona

What Are Friends For?

How friendship becomes us. The new, rewritten Part Two of our series on Friendship.

Mar 2, 2025 • Mona Mona

The Radical Future of Women's Friendships

What the incorporation of women's friendship ideals into "companionable marriage" can teach us about the radical potential of women's friendships.

Feb 15, 2025 • Mona Mona

SERIES: What Is The Most Challenging Aspect of Being Human Right Now?

The Line Between Idealism and Misanthropy

Part 4 of our series thinking through the most challenging aspects of being human right now.

Jan 23, 2025 • Mona Mona

The Desire For Community (Revisited)

The growing desire for community and our commitment to individualism. Part 3 of thinking through the most challenging aspects of being human right now.

Jan 16, 2025 • Mona Mona

Everything All At Once

On information overwhelm and the difficulty knowing what is true, real, and good online. Part 2 of thinking about the most challenging aspects of being…

Jan 10, 2025 • Mona Mona

Like Breathing Through A Straw

Working through your answers to the question of the single most challenging aspect of being human right now.

Jan 3, 2025 • Mona Mona

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