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Reader's Digest: June 13, 2026
My first piece of public writing for a while is a book review for the TLS, about Joanna Stalnaker’s superb study of eighteenth-century philosophers…
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Depression
When I wrote about infirmity in Life is Hard, I did so with a caveat: I would treat only physical disability and physical pain. I gave myself excuses…
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Reader's Digest: August 16, 2025
How many ways are there to punctuate a sentence? When I wrote about the topic more than two years back, I counted fourteen basic punctuation marks…
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Tractatus Logico-Calceatus
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‘it is a person’s privilege to go to hell’
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The Philosophic Buddha
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Derek Parfit has been described as “the most famous philosopher most people have never heard of.” He was the author of two monumental books in moral…
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Reader's Digest: July 19, 2025
An article in the Smithsonian Magazine brings word of a 7th great extinction, not as terrifying as the 6th, but not on that account negligible; in it…
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May 16
Pedestrian Verse
I’ve been listening obsessively to Frightened Rabbit. This is my standard mode of musical engagement: fall hopelessly in love with an artist, composer…
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May 9
Interrobang‽
Punctuation is said to originate almost 5000 years after the invention of the written word, with the Mesha Stele in 840 BCE, a stone inscribed for King…
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May 2
That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore
Philosophers have been puzzled by the fact that grief fades. If one form of grief is responsive to the death of someone you love—not to its impact on…
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Apr 25
The Philosophic Buddha
I’ll admit it: I am not a fan of Buddhism. I’m aware that this doesn’t sound good—like confessing to contempt for puppies or to harbouring doubts about…
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Apr 18
The Reinvention of Art?
Jed Perl’s Authority and Freedom: A Defense of the Arts is, among other things, a 140-page subtweet.
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Reader's Digest: April 4, 2026
I’m taking a pause from taking a pause to report on a book that may be of interest to readers of this newsletter.
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The Meaning of It All
In Life is Hard, I distinguished “a meaningful life”—in which one engages, more or less successfully, with things that matter—from “the meaning of…
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