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Reader's Digest, July 5, 2025
In the last NYRB, Kwame Anthony Appiah reviewed two recent books about translation. One is by Damion Searls, whose Tractatus I criticized in this space…
Jul 5
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June 2025
Font of Wisdom, Font of Truth
I became a Baskerville convert in 2012, the year film-maker Errol Morris ran an uncontrolled experiment in The New York Times. By his arrangement, an…
Jun 28
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Reader's Digest: June 21, 2025
A recent essay by Raymond Guess connects Alasdair MacIntyre with the social history of analytic philosophy. Geuss is a brilliant writer and as trenchant…
Jun 21
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Reader's Digest: June 21, 2025
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Errata
It is now a more or less biennial event: a professional philosopher, employed in an Anglophone philosophy department, publishes a book denouncing…
Jun 14
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Proximity
Let’s start with points of convergence. Like Jonathan Kramnick, John Guillory posits close reading as a skill or technê, a form of acquired know-how or…
Jun 7
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May 2025
Alasdair MacIntyre (1929-2025)
Alasdair MacIntyre died this month. I never met him and I know only a fraction of his work; but I admire what I have read. That includes After Virtue…
May 31
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Selected Amazon Reviews
Let us celebrate one of the great social and technical breakthroughs of the 2010s: the invention of the “Bic for Her,” a biro so ergonomic even the wife…
May 24
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Negative Space
According to his student, Norman Malcom, “Wittgenstein once said that a serious and good philosophical work could be written that would consist entirely…
May 10
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Who wants to live forever?
I made a joke, last year, about philosophy’s failure as a pedagogy of death: if it was meant to teach me how to reconcile with mortality, it doesn’t…
May 3
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Reader's Digest: April 26, 2025
There’s an informative, well-written piece by Zoe Guttenplan, on the NYRB website, about the New York City subway map.
Apr 26
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Kieran Setiya
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Reader's Digest: April 26, 2025
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The Delivery: ★★★★★
A nameless delivery boy in a nameless city, a refugee from a nameless country, fleeing a nameless Strongman, indentured to a nameless Supervisor…
Apr 19
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Reader's Digest: April 12, 2025
You wait ages for an essay about Johannes Kepler’s 1634 Somnium, and then two come along at once…
Apr 12
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Reader's Digest: April 12, 2025
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