Ben Burgis

Ben Burgis
Burgis in 2021
Born1980 (age 45–46)
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Miami
ThesisTruth is a One-Player Game: A Defense of Monaletheism and Classical Logic (2011)
Academic work
InstitutionsRutgers University

Ben Burgis (born 1980)[1] is an American socialist political commentator, author and adjunct philosophy professor at Rutgers University. He has written articles for Jacobin,[2][3] The Daily Beast[4][5] and MSNBC.[6]

He graduated from Aquinas College in Grand Rapids in 2003,[1] obtained an M.A. in philosophy from Western Michigan University in 2005[7] and a Ph.D. at the University of Miami in 2011.[8]

Ben Burgis explains socialism primarily based on the analytical Marxist tradition of G. A. Cohen, and focuses on reconstructing Cohen's moral and logical critique of capitalism in a modern way.[9][10] He mainly uses the rigorous argumentation method of analytical philosophy to argue for the legitimacy of socialism and the problems of capitalism.[11][12][3][13]

Books

  • With Conrad Bongard Hamilton, Matthew McManus, and Marion Trejo Myth and Mayhem: A Leftist Critique of Jordan Peterson. Zero Books. 2020. ISBN 9781789045536
  • Give Them an Argument: Logic for the Left. Collective Ink. 2019. ISBN 9781789042115.[14][15][16]
  • Canceling Comedians While the World Burns:A Critique of the Contemporary Left. Zero Books. 2021. ISBN 9781789045482.[17][18]
  • Christopher Hitchens: What He Got Right, How He Went Wrong, and Why He Still Matters. Zero Books. 2021. ISBN 9781789047455.[19][20][21][22]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Burgis, Ben. "Bio". Retrieved 16 October 2025.
  2. ^ Burgis, Ben. "PragerU's Moral Case for Capitalism Is Terrible". Jacobin. Retrieved 2024-05-27.
  3. ^ a b Burgis, Ben (18 May 2024). "We Can't Have a Fair Society Under Capitalism". Jacobin. Archived from the original on 26 January 2025. Retrieved 27 May 2024.
  4. ^ Burgis, Ben (2023-11-30). "Henry Kissinger Was One of the 20th Century's Greatest Monsters". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 2024-05-27.
  5. ^ Burgis, Ben (2023-09-06). "Why Is Bill Maher Throwing His Own Writers Under the Bus?". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 2024-05-27.
  6. ^ "Opinion | Obama still doesn't get why Trump won. That's the problem". MSNBC.com. 2024-12-06. Retrieved 2024-12-09.
  7. ^ "Friends of Philosophy. Newsletter" (PDF). University of Miami. November 2006.
  8. ^ "Graduate Placement". University of Miami. Retrieved 16 October 2025.
  9. ^ Burgis, Ben (10 April 2022). "If You Want to Understand Marxism, Read G. A. Cohen". Jacobin. Archived from the original on 14 June 2025. Retrieved 18 June 2025.
  10. ^ Burgis, Ben (16 April 2022). "G. A. Cohen Showed Why We Should All Be Socialists". Jacobin. Archived from the original on 15 March 2025. Retrieved 18 June 2025.
  11. ^ Burgis, Ben (11 June 2022). "Karl Marx Was Right: Workers Are Systematically Exploited Under Capitalism". Jacobin. Archived from the original on 7 June 2025. Retrieved 18 June 2025.
  12. ^ Burgis, Ben (7 November 2023). "A Lack of Money Means a Lack of Freedom". Jacobin. Archived from the original on 19 March 2025. Retrieved 18 June 2025.
  13. ^ Burgis, Ben (23 December 2024). "How Capitalism Undermines Freedom". Jacobin. Archived from the original on 3 April 2025. Retrieved 18 June 2025.
  14. ^ "Give Them an Argument: Logic for the Left. Book Review". 8 May 2019. Archived from the original on 9 May 2019.
  15. ^ Brooker, Ben (22 July 2019). "How to deal with the logicbros: Ben Burgis' Give Them an Argument". Overland. ISSN 0030-7416.
  16. ^ Robinson, Nathan J. (12 June 2019). "Logic and The Left". Current Affairs.
  17. ^ Charlesworth, J. J. (22 June 2021). "What 'Cancel Culture' Conceals". ArtReview.
  18. ^ Jewell, Jeremy (22 June 2021). "Book Review: "Canceling Comedians While the World Burns" — The Case for Comediansplaining". The Arts Fuse.
  19. ^ "Seeing Hitchens Clearly: A Review of Ben Burgis' Christopher Hitchens: What He Got Right, How He Went Wrong, and Why He Still Matters". 16 December 2021. Archived from the original on 16 December 2021.
  20. ^ Maxwell, Jamie (17 January 2022). "Christopher Hitchens's legacy re-examined: Jamie Maxwell reviews Ben Burgis's new book". The Herald. Retrieved 8 October 2025.
  21. ^ "Is Christopher Hitchens Still Worth Reading?". Current Affairs. 13 October 2021.
  22. ^ Clayfield, Matthew (10 February 2022). "'Christopher Hitchens: What He Got Right, How He Went Wrong, and Why He Still Matters' by Ben Burgis". The Monthly. Retrieved 8 October 2025.
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