In previous episodes we've discussed what it means to be a public intellectual, the #MeToo movement and moral education, the digital humanities, the problem with trying to get our desires to conform to our ethical and political principles, Occupy Wall Street and Larry David.The conference Walter Benjamin as Philosopher is devoted to the topic of Eli Friedlamder's book Walter Benjamin: A Philosophical Portrait. I also co-host the magazine's Podcast, "Rather be Reading." You can find us on iTunes, SoundCloud, and PlayerFM. Most recently I've edited and co-wrote the introduction for The Point's anthology, The Opening of the American Mind: Ten Years of the Point. Iowans, Unite! (February 8, 2016) - On my (day of) work in electoral politics.I Am Madame Bovary: “Cat Person” and the dark pleasures of empathy (April 23, 2018) - On the relation between reading with empathy and reducing works of art (and people) to their moral failings.On Denialism (January 14, 2019) - On political rhetoric and the danger inherent in trying to deny the very existence of projects and practices that have become the targets of criticism (e.g., "identity politics"), rather than defending, evaluating and proposing a new vocabulary for discussing them.On Left Straussianism (May 22, 2019) - On the elitism inherent in refusing to air disagreements with one's "allies" publicly.On Choosing Life (September 7, 2019) - On the idea that it is unethical to bring children into a world threatened by climate breakdown. Motherhood and Taboo (January 14, 2021) - On The Lost Daughter, and the alleged taboo on the representation of unnatural mothers.Confession is Just a Special Form of Bragging: On Fleabag (July 30, 2019) - On guilt, absolution and the refusal to confess as a way of reclaiming lost agency.įor The Point, where I am also an editor, I've written the following:.Fanning the Flames while the Humanities Burn (May 20, 2019) - On why acknowledging and mourning the rapid decline in humanities enrollment and employment does not imply nostalgia for an exclusionary past, but a commitment to the life of the mind.The Case for Admissions Lotteries (September 13, 2019) - For the Chronicle's forum on meritocracy and higher education I wrote about why the current admissions system has all the vices of an aristocracy, and none of the virtues and defended an alternative.Giorgio Agamben's Coronavirus Cluelessness (March 23, 2020) - On theory's collapse into paranoia and what it is we are really sacrificing our pleasures and freedoms for.The Nature of Thought (April 14, 2020) - On why Irad Kimhi's Thinking and Being is the best philosophy book of the past decade.We Deserve Better From Our Public Intellectuals: On Kate Manne's new book, incels and the perils of public philosophy (December 2, 2020).Finite Variety (October 4, 2019) - On Martin Hägglund's This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom, and why our finitude - the threat of failure, the prospect of death - cannot carry the burden of rendering our lives meaningful all by itself.Now Is As Good a Time as Any to Start a Family (April 30, 2020) - On whether it a good idea to try to start a family pregnant during the year of the plague.How to Reopen the American Mind (October 22, 2020) - On why the “crisis of the humanities” won’t be solved within the cloisters of academia alone: to live up to the mission of the humanities we must recover our trust in the broader public’s capacity to think.
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