When Is Something “Politicized”?

In philosophy but also in society more broadly, when is something “inherently political”?

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Last week Agnes Callard, a University of Chicago philosophy professor with a column at The Point magazine and the author of the book Aspiration, wrote an editorial in The New York Times arguing that philosophers should not sign petitions.

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