(An informal and incomplete topic index of The Ethical Spectacle).
An Auschwitz Alphabet, June 1995; Philip K. Dick and Human Kindness, March 1996; The Future, January 1998; Lying, May 2000; A Hard Rain, September 2001; Fat Boys and Buff Toys, December 2005; What the Sybil Knew, March 2009; Language, Lies and Power, October 2009; Return of the Medieval Mind, January 2011; Arrested, April 2012; Boo Radley as a Role Model, March 2015.
Abortion, January 2012
Prohibit All Campaign Finance--the first issue, January 1995.
Expose the Metadata, October 1996.
Speech and Money, August 1999
Money as Speech, June 2014
Microsoft: An Unprincipled, Rapacious Company, April 1995.
Capitalism and the Tragedy of the Commons, April 1997
The Internet Bubble, January 2001
Securitization and Responsibility, January 2009
The Failure of Free Markets, April 2009
Welcome to Billionaireworld, August 2011
Class Warfare, September 2011
Run Over, January 2013
Middle Class Nightmare, August 2013
Shame or Rage, February 2014
Capitalism and Causation, March 2014
Sandy, November 2012
Earth's Normal Accident, February 2013
Our World Is Ending, May 2019
A Coronavirus Journal, ongoing
Texas Kills an Innocent Man, March 1995.
Humility, Compassion and Death, December 1997
The Death Penalty Legend July 2000
Timothy McVeigh and "Closure", July 2001
Democracy and Capitalism, April 1996
Democracy and Stupidity, September 2000
Democracy and Illusion, October 2000
Democracy is Leaking, September 2002
Towards a One Party State December 2002
Democracy is Failing, March 2010
Could It Happen Here?, March 2011
Democracy and Size, April 2016
There is No 99%, June 2016
The (Semiotic) Stench of a Burning Flag (Amendment) February 1996
Dreaming, Forgetting and Freedom of Speech, May 1997
My Web Libel Adventure, March 2001
The Chill, May 2003
Persecution, September 2007
Enemies, True Threats and the First Amendment, April 2014
What Is Free Speech?, July 2015
Free Speech and Responsibility, August 2015
My Constitutional Right to Own a SAM, February 1995.
On the Profound Difficulty of Knowing Whom to Shoot, September 1996
Speech and Guns,June 1998
Welcome to Murderworld, March 2008
The Reset Switch, February 2011
Sharks and Nets, March 2005
Our Broken Health Insurance System, May 2005
Health Care and Human Kindness, August 2007
Health Care Reform and Rights Language, April 2010
Of Broccoli and Brotherhood: The Health Care Decision, July 2012
Republicans and Free Riders, May 2014
A Letter to Justice Roberts, June 2015
An Auschwitz Alphabet, June 1995.
Why the Internet Is "Dangerous", November 1995
Craigslist: The Failure of An Internet Community, November 2009
A Shameful Architecture, January 2014
Israeli Symbolic Violence, November 1996.
Israel at 50, May 1998
A Day in Jerusalem, July 1999
Israel, November 2000
Breakfast of Scorpions, May 2002
Gaza, August 2014
Israel as a Dollar Auction, September 2014
A Palestinian State, April 2015
That Traitor, Language, March 1999
Katrina and Words, October 2005
Results vs. Spin, May 2006
Language, Lies and Power, October 2009
Why I Left the Law, July 1997
Why I Hate Prosecutors, October 2007
Innocence, July 2009
Compassionate Lawyering, November 2014
Poor People's Courts, May 2015
Compassionate Leadership, January 1996
Leadership, October 1998
Philip K. Dick and Human Kindness, March 1996
Five Thoughts About Ulysses, March 1998 (someone did me the honor of plagiarizing this for a talk at a PEN meeting)
Accidental Angels, November 1998
Proust's Ruined Mirror, February 1999
Edith Wharton's House of Mirth, March 2001
DaVinci, Duration, Death, May 2001
Night Thoughts About Theatre, May 2010
Books That Wrote Me, November 2010
Morality Without God, October 1995.
Morality and Ice Cream, June 1999
Morality and Truth, December 1999
Ethics and Entropy, August 2012
Movies, Laundry, Same Thing, December 1995
Film Noir Construction Kit, September 1999
Steven Spielberg Wants to be a Real Boy, August 2001
The Ethics of Documentaries, November 2007
A Hard Rain, September 2001
What War Will Mean,October 2001
In The Valley of the Black Pig, November 2001
Military Tribunals, December 2001
God vs. God, January 2002
Huge, February 2002
Gulfari and the Magic Button, March 2002
In Memory of Salman Hamdani, April 2003
How Mourning Becomes Kitsch, June 2006
A Personal History of the Bomb, June 1996
Our Friend the Kill Vehicle, August 2001
See You At The Demo, November 2011
My Night in Jail, December 2011
Arrested, April 2012
The Prisoner's Dilemma, September 1995.
The Problem of Altruism, February 1997
Why I Am Not a Libertarian, August 1997
The Future, January 1998
Losing a Wheel, September 1998
Beckett: Entropy: Hawking: Time, May 1999
My Twentieth Century, October 1999
Natural Rights Don't Exist, April 2000
Lying, May 2000
Nonviolence, June 2001
Ethics of a Fish Dinner, August 2003
Ripples From Walden Pond, April 2007
Progress, January 2008
What Easter Island Means to Me, May 2008
Imaginary Emergencies, July 2008
What the Sybil Knew, March 2009
Alice's Woods, June 2009
Knowledge and Its Discontents, August 2009
Right and Wrong, September 2009
Ambition, January 2010
Gratitude, September 2010
Toolness, May 2011
Respect, October 2011
Narratives, March 2012
Chris of Astoria, September 2012
Individuality, May 2013
"Should" Is a Weasel Word, July 2014
Ebola, Honesty and Competence, October 2014
Boo Radley as a Role Model, March 2015
Turtle Dreaming, September 2015
I am a Hope Punk, December 2018
Turtle Rules, January 2020
Are We a Nation?, January 1997
Bill Clinton Should Resign, February 1998
Thomas Jefferson and the Crown of Creation, December 1998
Schrodingers Election, December 2000
The Empty Suitor August 2004
Stupid Smart Men, November 2006
Giuliani is Dangerous, June 2007
Trusting the Government, July 2007
Religion and Politics, November 2008
What's Going Wrong, February 2010
The Decay of the American Narrative, October 2010
Return of the Medieval Mind, January 2011
Labs and Cafeterias: Night Thoughts About Government, July 2011
Dear Greta: You Are Being Lied To, June 2012
Brett Kavanaugh and Rape Culture, October 2018
Collusion and Causation, March 2019
Kent State, May 4, 1970: America Kills Its Children, May 1995.
May 4: A Memory of Activism, August 2000
Mad Cowboy Disease, March 2003
Our Karma Just Ran Over Your Dogma, September 2004
Where's the Dissent? April 2006
A Letter to a Judge About Civil Disobedience, February 2015
Race and Intelligence, December 2007
Black Lives, December 2014
Whiteness, December 2015
Same Sex Marriage, July 1996 (yes, July 1996).
Homosexuality as a Choice, September 2005
Same Sex Marriage, an amicus brief, March 2013
Planets of Desire, January 1999
Life and Death in Outer Space, December 2003
Billionaires in Space, February 2020
Towards a Morality of Tool Use, December 1996.
Biology, Technology, Vanity, August 1998
Is Software Art or Engineering?, November 1999
Night Thoughts About Technology, June 2010
Nuclear Power and My Ass, April 2011
Why We Can't Develop Software, December 2013
The Disappeared, April 2004, my amicus brief in the Padilla case
Torture, July 2004
Close Guantanamo, July 2005
No Torture. Ever., May 2009
Charlie Hebdo, January 2015
Ripples From Paris, November 2015
A Very Short Essay About Donald Trump, January 2016
Solving for Donald Trump, February 2016
Trump as an Elizabethan, March 2016
Our Unbearable Lightness, May 2016
President Trump, July 2016
Trump Twitter Breitbart Hate, August 2016
Post-Truth, September 2016
Evil Hour, October 2016
Post-Cliff, November 2016
Haircuts and Civilization, December 2016
Wind is Changing, January 2017
The Resistible Rise of Milo Y. February 2017
Donald Trump and Human Agency, March 2017
Donald Trump's Poverty, April 2017
Donald Trump as Kitsch, May 2017
Donald Trump and Murder, June 2017
A Very Short Essay on the Trump Voter, July 2017
Donald Trump and the Prisoners' Dilemma, January 2018
Waist Deep in the Big Muddy, November 2002
Vanity and War, February 2003
Civilian Casualties, November 2004
Fat Boys and Buff Toys, December 2005
The Anatomy of Incompetence, June 2010
Permanent War, June 2011
A Law of War Requires World Government, May 1996
Dictators and Turtles, February 2000
Night Thoughts on Globalization, November 2005
Self Determination, February 2009
World Government and Liberty, June 2013