Video
Moral Grandstanding in American Discourse: Is It a Problem? (Debate with Justin Weinberg)
Politics as Morality Pageant - Pepperdine University
What’s Wrong with Moral Grandstanding? - Brain in a Vat
When Should You Forgive? - Brain in a Vat
How to Defeat Grandstanders (and stay classy while doing it) - Big Think
The Psychology of Moral Grandstanding - Big Think
Radio and Podcasts
Indirect Message with Laci Green
The Minefield, ABC Radio Australia
The Philosopher’s Zone, ABC Radio Australia
Heterodox Academy: Half Hour of Heterodoxy Podcast
New Books in Philosophy Podcast
The Political Philosophy Podcast
Featured in
Vice (2021): “What Blackout Tuesday Can Teach Us About Virtue Signaling”
Commentary Magazine (2020): “The Grandstanding Caste”
Christianity Today (2020): “Social Media and Public Grandstanding”
Forbes (2020): “In A Pandemic, We Need Philosophers, Too”
The New York Times Magazine (2020): “I’ve Protested for Racial Justice. Do I Have to Post on Social Media?”
The Guardian (2020): “What drives the ‘moral grandstanding’ that has infected our politics? These feelings of superiority are about people wanting their emotional needs met”
The Irish Times (2020): “Virtue signalling drowns us in hopelessness: Moral grandstanding fosters anger and obscures improvements in many areas”
Scientific American (2019): “Are You a Moral Grandstander? New research suggests that moral grandstanding may be a major source of conflict in the world today”
Vox (2019): “Moral Grandstanding is making an argument to just to boost your status. It’s everywhere.”
The Atlantic: (2019): “The Dark Psychology of Social Networks: Why it feels like everything is going haywire”
The Atlantic (2018): “Randa Jarrar, Moral Grandstanding, and Forbearance: Fixating on offensive speech amplifies its harms—often, the best course is simply to ignore it.”
Slate (France) (2017): “Notre indignation vertueuse permanente tire notre société vers le bas”
HuffPost (2016): The Quiet Poison In American Politics: We’re all guilty of “moral grandstanding.” At least in Washington.