Applications are live for our NYT editor-taught next writing workshop for academics and researchers, which will be held Northeastern U. on October 18th & 19th. Apps are short, 3 pitches, CV, writing sample, due July 30th. You need not be a tenure-track academic, just need to have

McSweeney’s passed on my list.

Leaving an extraordinary, energizing workshop on philosophy in media, organized by the tireless and one-of-a-kind champion of public philosophy Barry Lam 🥢 Big thanks to Kieran Setiya; @ksetiya.bsky.social Emily Wunderlich Margo Beth Fleming James Ryerson and fellow participants

I always thought if you were charged with a crime in the USA, you could plead 3 ways: (1) GUILTY (2) NOT GUILTY or (3) say nothing aka NO CONTEST (basically same as guilty) Turns out, there’s a 4th option. A weird paradoxical & surprisingly common one you prob never heard of. 🧵

Congratulations to philosopher Amy Reed-Sandoval on her first longform New Yorker piece, on the quest to identify all the dead bodies in Mexico. newyorker.com/news/dispatch/…

Maybe I’ve been in philosophy too long, but the first question that came to me when I saw this meme was: which porn star would it have been?

Philosopher Tim Bayne has a longform piece out today Noema Magazine on the various theories wrestling with consciousness in the animal kingdom. noemamag.com/exploring-the-…

Are y'all listening to this new season of Scene On Radio? I'm learning A TON.

Philosopher in media, Victor Kumar on the progressive case for pronatalism. nytimes.com/2024/08/05/opi…

Midwestern political shit-talking is quietly the most effective kind of shit-talking, Walz, Buttegieg....I'd like to know where it comes from.

As soon as I found out Walz was from Mankato, I though, Biewen for Director of the NEH/NEA

For many of us of a certain generation, we were all required to learn and do square dancing.

Congratulations to Yael, my longtime friend and literary advisor!

I was thrilled to be invited by my dear friend and colleague Isaac Butler (he/him) to be his final interview on his Slate.com podcast, Working. Check it out! slate.com/podcasts/worki…

What makes you and your childhood self the "same" person, despite a lifetime of physical and psychological changes? Fascinating read on the mystery of personal identity themarginalian.org/2014/10/07/reb…

I have an X-Phi study I want to commission, open to it ending up as academic paper, but its primarily for a trade book. Who should I talk to about such a collaboration? Suggestions Experimental Philosophy Nick Byrd?