Fourth-year Ph.D. student Larry Busk has landed papers in two major professional journals—one in Constellations, a top critical theory journal, and one in Philosophy Today, one of the leading journals for general articles in continental philosophy. The Constellations paper (titled “It’s a Good Life? Adorno and the Happiness Machine”) uses Adorno’s work to critique the contemporary cultural trend of “socially mandated optimism.” The essay to appear in Philosophy Today (“History as Chiasm, Chiasm as History”) connects Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy of history and his later ontology. The former article will appear in print early in 2017; the latter will appear in the summer of 2018. Busk is currently in the early stages of a dissertation on Arendt and radical democratic theory under the direction of Dr. Rocío Zambrana.