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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Unalienable Rights, Alien Populations and Natural Law

We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created... read more

'Hamilton the Musical' and the American Historical Imagination

I'll just say it. Four years out, Hamilton the Musical remains the most important American cultural... read more

Amy Wax's Recent Inflammatory Statements on Cultural Nationalism...

For those interested in a framework for thinking about University of Pennsylvania... read more

Alexander Hamilton, Senator Mike Lee, and the U.S....

“Mine is an odd destiny. Perhaps no man in the United states... read more

The Divinity of Data: Artificial Intelligence, the Death...

In the first decade of the 21st century, an unsexy, inoffensive software... read more

From Working Class to White Trash: Risk, Responsibility,...

Long before Donald Trump seized his spurious, self-canceling political moment as the... read more

'Send Her Back:' Limitations of a Language Lens...

The underlying dynamics that cause & perpetuate racism are incredibly complicated, requiring... read more

Thirteen Ways to Think About the Election of...

“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.... read more

Wolf at the Door: Antonin Scalia and the...

Note: I wrote this essay a number of years ago, but am... read more

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