Has the “Journal of Controversial Ideas” Become Irrelevant?

Has the “Journal of Controversial Ideas” Become Irrelevant?

(Peter Singer at Crawford Forum 2017) “It has published on a range of topics that perhaps seemed controversial to someone at some time (specifically, academics in the early 2020s) but certainly not to the broader culture in 2025.” The first issue of the Journal of Controversial Ideas was published in April of 2021. For a brief moment, this seemed like a big deal. The journal was founded by well-known philosophers Peter Singer, Francesca Minerva,…