Atticus Carnell is a PhD candidate in political theory at Princeton. He’s interested in what we owe to each other in communicating, the nature of respect, recognition, and authority, and the moral foundations of democracy. He’s also interested in social theory, particularly in how new forms of technological mediation complicate received models of social reproduction. His doctoral research deals with all these topics, developing a respect-based account of the value of democracy (as involving mutually heedful relations among citizens), updating some social-theoretical canon for the digital age, and applying this work to the design of social media. He has a BA in politics from Bowdoin College and an MPhil in political theory from Balliol College, Oxford, and recently held a Graduate Prize Fellowship at Princeton's University Center for Human Values.