• Happiness as by-product rather than end
  Sep 3

• Freedom to chew over odd ideas
  Aug 26

• The worst of times, the best of times
  Aug 20

• Why study philosophy?
  Aug 15

• Wondering about wondering
  Aug 11

• Arendt, Kant, and Judgment
  Aug 7

• Social insecurities and FOMO, 1954 version
  Aug 7

• The bonds of reading
  Aug 6

• Grief and regret
  Aug 6

• The practice of writing
  Aug 1

• The Past in the Present
  Jul 24

• The companionship in reading
  Jul 16

• The benefits of luck
  Jul 10

• Crises, past and present
  Jul 9

• Independent cells or cells in community?
  Jun 24

• Are we consumers of our lives or products of them?
  Jun 22

• Ego, emptiness, and rebirth
  Jun 16

• On the validity of the biblical text
  Jun 14

• Whitehead on reading Kant
  Jun 12

• Human "progress" and nature
  Jun 12

• It looks as if…
  Jun 7

• On managing aristocrats
  May 25

• The price of books
  Apr 29

• Genes: fate and choice
  Apr 14

• The value of civilization
  Mar 4

• Living an entirely private life is a deprivation
  Mar 2

• Of a certain age …
  Feb 27

• Reason, properly understood, is public and sharable
  Feb 26

• Self interrupting the self
  Feb 21

• Writer's block
  Feb 5

• Bertrand Russell on dictators
  Feb 2

• Nazis and socialists (and the KKK)
  Feb 1

• My experience is what I attend to
  Jan 31

• The burden of writing
  Jan 30

• Cognition and locomotion
  Jan 29

• Totalitarianism, Perfection, and Oppression
  Jan 28

• Reading (and translating) one’s past writings
  Jan 26

• Reading is its own reward
  Jan 25

• Courage to write
  Jan 25

• Academic departmentalization and teaching mentality
  Jan 19

• Lived life and stories
  Jan 16

• The luxury of yearning for less
  Jan 4