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    ... So Black and Blue: Response to Rudinow
    Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 53 (3): 313-316. 1995.
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    On Obama
    Routledge. 2014.
    On Obama examines some of the key philosophical questions that accompany the historic emergence of the 44th US president. The purpose of the book is to take seriously the once-common thought that Mr. Obama had ushered in a post-historical age. Three questions organize the argument of the book. Has the US become post-racial? Does Obama’s pragmatism show the way to a post-partisan approach to politics? And does the reining in of US power and ambitions signal the emergence of a post-imperial moment…Read more
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    Context and Complaint: On Racial Disorientation
    Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 35 (1-2): 331-351. 2014.
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    Is It Sometime Yet?
    Contemporary Pragmatism 8 (2): 17-29. 2011.
    It has become fashionable to claim that Barack Obama is a philosophical pragmatist, committed to Deweyan convictions rather than to the vulgar practicalism of political expediency. This reading is meant to explain certain aspects of Mr. Obama's public life, and to demonstrate the coherence of his ethical vision. I'll suggest that the appeal of the reading has less to do with the evidence in its favor, which is equivocal at best, than with the deeper desires that it seems to satisfy
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    We Who Are Dark (review)
    Social Theory and Practice 33 (1): 163-171. 2007.
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    On the Very Idea of a Philosophical Culture: Or, The American Evasion of Politics
    Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 52 (3): 366. 2016.
    It is an honor to comment on Carlin Romano’s fine and ambitious book. It is also something of a challenge, precisely because of Romano’s ambition. He has set himself the task of rebranding both the United States and philosophy. He has undertaken to compose and sell an image of the United States as a distinctly philosophical enterprise, and a picture of philosophy as something more democratic and diverse than the mostly white, mostly male, elite-aspirant academic discipline that most people assoc…Read more