About Peter Hammond Schwartz

Peter Hammond Schwartz is a writer, based in Seattle. He received a PhD in political philosophy from University of California, Berkeley, taught at the University of Maryland and Washington University in St. Louis, worked as the Politics editor for Microsoft Encarta, and founded an online legal news and research company called Knowledge Mosaic that LexisNexis purchased in 2012. He has published articles and essays on politics, history, and philosophy in peer-reviewed journals, edited volumes, newspapers, websites, opinion magazines including The Nation, San Francisco Chronicle, Huffington Post, Ploughshares Fund, Political Theory, and Western Political Quarterly. He has published poetry and lyric essays in Chaleur Magazine and Portland Review.

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Which Side Are You On? The Lost Art...

Ahh, the lost art of campaign journalism. In this New Yorker piece about... read more

What Is New About The New Atheists?

In my previous essay, I invoked “those famously fratricidal brothers, Peter and Christopher... read more

Revisiting the New Atheists

There is a widely held (and somewhat depressing) view that most people... read more

The Law as Society's "Operating System"

How the Federalist Society Stole the Federal Judiciary, Conquered Washington DC, and... read more

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