Ta-Nehisi Coates put it succinctly when he said, “The violence is not new; it’s the cameras that are new.” We’re seeing more of a lot of ugly societal trends not because human beings became more monstrous overnight, but because now we can research things, we can record things, an...
Over the past few years, I have started in earnest researching and writing about “the music of ethical action”, as I sometimes call it. It turns out to be quite the rabbit-hole to have fallen down! My research has recently drawn me into the orbit of cognitive archaeologists, those who...