Articles in this category analyze political structures, institutional power, public discourse, and civic life. These pieces examine how policies, governance, and public narratives shape collective life—and how individuals and groups respond to, resist, or reimagine institutional authority.
Legitimacy, Responsibility, and the Social Conditions That Sustain Power Interpretive Frame This essay examines a question that surfaces repeatedly in moments of political scandal and moral outrage: How do political leaders get away with actions that appear unethical, harmful, or openly dishonest? Popular explanations often reduce the problem to corruption or bad character. Drawing on […]
Interpretive FrameThis essay examines institutional neutrality not as an absence of values or position, but as a socially constructed stance that legitimizes existing hierarchies. By exploring how neutrality functions across multiple institutions, it reveals how claims of objectivity and fairness often sustain White, straight, Protestant male dominance and distribute advantage and harm unevenly. The essay
