Sam Ben-Meir


Sam Ben-Meir is an assistant adjunct professor of philosophy at City University of New York, College of Technology.

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Trump is a Symptom of Our Epistemic and Moral Decay Jul 27th 2024
We Already Have Effective Socialized Medicine: Now Universalize It Jan 28th 2024
Painting and Revolution: Manet and Degas at the Metropolitan Museum of New York Jan 4th 2024
Painting the Event of Being: Edmundo Bacci at the Peggy Guggenheim Museum in Venice Aug 18th 2023
Giordano Bruno, 475 Years Later Aug 5th 2023
Book Review: Images of the Present Time (2023) by Alain Badiou May 4th 2023
Freeing America from the Quagmire of Inequality Mar 17th 2023
Light and Obliquity: Edward Hopper at the Whitney Museum Feb 7th 2023
Review: ‘King Pleasure’ Lives Up to Its Name Dec 1st 2022
The Authoritarian Personality and Rise of Right-Wing Extremism Sep 8th 2022
Sleep No More: Capitalism and Insomnia Jul 29th 2022
Harmonious Magic: JMW Turner at the Boston Museum of Fine Art Jun 8th 2022
Ideology and the Death of Truth Mar 27th 2022
Income Caps and Inequality Sep 11th 2021
Beyond Functionality: Modern and Contemporary Ceramics at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Jul 20th 2021
The Configuration of Sensation: Paul Cézanne’s Drawings at the Museum of Modern Art Jun 30th 2021
The Conductor Jun 10th 2021
The Fly May 23rd 2021
The Lasting Significance of David Hume May 19th 2021
Jackson Pollock’s Mural at the Guggenheim Museum Apr 8th 2021
Human Folly and the Nature of Evil: Francisco Goya at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Mar 15th 2021
Reflections on the Tuskegee Study and Its Moral Harm Feb 16th 2021
Power vs. Duty in American Politics Jan 6th 2021
Anarchism and the Avant-Garde: Félix Fénéon at the Museum of Modern Art Dec 1st 2020
Film Review: The Last Vermeer Nov 15th 2020
The American Struggle: Jacob Lawrence at The Metropolitan Museum of Art Oct 15th 2020
Destruction of Juukan Cave a loss to humanity Sep 15th 2020
End Life Sentences for Non-Violent Crimes Sep 2nd 2020
What is morally wrong with discrimination? A Kantian analysis Jul 31st 2020
Less Transparency Will Worsen the Pandemic Jul 18th 2020
My Conversation with artist Ruth Poniarski Jun 29th 2020
Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Today’s Movement for Racial Justice Jun 13th 2020
What Can Hegel Teach Us Today? Jun 7th 2020
The Theology of Pandemics Apr 20th 2020
Social Crisis and the Public Use of Reason Apr 7th 2020
The Communist Manifesto Turns 172 Feb 14th 2020
Armageddon Yacht: Michael Anderson at New York’s Arts & Leisure Feb 4th 2020
Jacob’s Ladder by Chagall at Israel’s Tiroche Auction House Jan 23rd 2020
Art and Defacement: Basquiat at the Guggenheim Aug 8th 2019
What is Ethical Interanimality? Apr 23rd 2019
I Remember Danny Ben-Israel Apr 4th 2019
Painting as Metaphysics: Hilma af Klint and the Birth of Abstract Art Mar 12th 2019
A New Despotism in the Era of Surveillance Capitalism Feb 21st 2019
A New Despotism in the Era of Surveillance Capitalism Feb 12th 2019
The Spirit of Romanticism: Eugène Delacroix at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Dec 10th 2018
Rembrandt at the Scottish National Gallery Oct 11th 2018
Exploring the Human Figure: Klimt and Schiele at the Neue Galerie Aug 8th 2018
An Artist for Dark Times: Giacometti at the Guggenheim Museum Jul 12th 2018
Truth in Painting: Cézanne’s Portraits at the National Gallery of Art Jun 12th 2018
Truth is valuable in itself Jun 1st 2018
In the Flesh: Chaim Soutine at the Jewish Museum May 10th 2018
American Arcadia: Thomas Cole at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Apr 25th 2018
Trials of the Flesh: Caravaggio in Milan Nov 20th 2017
Is There an Alternative to Capitalism? Oct 18th 2017
Trumpism And Anti-Semitism Mar 6th 2017