How Nathan Cofnas Took a Page from the Republican Playbook and Won

The first rule of the Republican playbook is: when under scrutiny, start a witch hunt to distract from your own crimes. This is precisely what Nathan Cofnas did, and with great success. Whenever someone points out that Cofnas should never have been hired by the University of Ghent on the merits of his “research” on […]

How Much Dark Money Is in Professional Philosophy? 

One of the purposes of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY is to expose eugenic principles and practices within professional philosophy. As Shelley Tremain has argued persistently since founding this blog, the profession is largely animated by the spirit of “neoliberal eugenics,” such that “few philosophy departments (in the Global North at least) remain untouched by the eugenic vision […]

How Canadian Philosophy Plays a Vital Role in the Project of Eugenics: Or, Gender, Schafer, and Other Nondisabled White Male Bioethicists

The annual in-person meeting of the Canadian Philosophical Association (CPA) begins at Dalhousie University tomorrow. Given that Dalhousie has played, and continues to play, a formative role in the development of bioethical and legal arguments that promote MAiD, eugenics will be “in the air” once again at the CPA meeting, not least because two of […]

Disability Justice Is Animal Liberation: Cripping the Ridglan Farms Open Rescue 

On April 18th, hundreds of activists attempted to rescue beagles from Ridglan Farms, an animal research and breeding facility in Wisconsin. David Killoren wrote about his experience as one of those activists, and defended the use of open rescue to liberate animals[i] from carceral settings. This includes Ridglan Farms, where beagles are confined in 2×4 cages for their […]

Philosophical Eugenics: Grievance Philosopher Gets Job at UGhent Despite Shoddy Work, Still Sees Himself as Victim 

In this extremely competitive job market, Nathan Cofnas was recently hired to a postdoctoral position at Ghent University (UGhent) in Belgium. Confas is best known for his research on “race realism” – specifically, the claim that Black people are less intelligent than White people due to genetic inferiority, or, as he euphemistically puts it, there are “group differences […]

Corporate Pedophilic Elites Are Eugenicists Who Want to “Seed the Human Race with Their DNA”

It should come as no surprise that the corporate pedophilic elites controlling the global economy are also eugenicists. Epstein, Musk, and Trump exemplify the non-accidental relationship between pedophilia and eugenics – interconnected systems of oppression that inflict sexual, physical, and emotional violence on individuals deemed “undeveloped” or “impaired.”  Jeffrey Epstein Epstein apparently believed in both […]

Quote of the Week: MAiD, Bioethics, and the Culture of Eugenics in Canada

In a host of posts at BIOPOLITCAL PHILOSOPHY (for e.g., here, here, and here), in my monograph Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability, in “Disaster Ableism, Epistemologies of Crisis, and the Mystique of Bioethics” (my chapter in The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability), and in my forthcoming article in Feminist Philosophy Quarterly, I have […]

Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change 6 (#PhiDisSocCh6): Day Two

SCHEDULE FOR TODAY’S EVENTS: (All times shown are in EST) Thursday, January 29, 2026 10:00am-10:05am Welcome to Day Two of #PhiDisSocCh6 Shelley Lynn Tremain (BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY) 10:05am-12:05pm Panel: On the Birth of Foucault and the Abnormal Will Conway (Stony Brook), “’To Kill the Vanquished’: Rousseau at the Threshold of Biopolitics” Stephanie Jenkins (Oregon State), “On […]

Gattaca and the Impossibility of Eliminating Disability

Pictured above is the Gattaca movie poster, featuring three characters in a triangular arrangement. In the foreground is Ethan Hawke (playing Vincent), a white man with short, dark brown hair. To the left is Uma Thurman (Irene), a white woman with straight blonde hair in a ponytail. To the right is Jude Law (Jerome), a […]