When Judgment Isn’t Free: Kant, Arendt, and the Politics of Prejudice

In any courtroom, the act of judgment is often imagined as the purest expression of reason — a calm weighing of evidence, untouched by emotion or bias. Yet philosophy has long warned us that judgment is never so simple. Immanuel Kant, the eighteenth-century philosopher who redefined the modern mind, believed that judgment was the bridge […]