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hi, all! I am sorry that I have been so bad at maintaining this Substack lately. I don’t really have many good excuses, except for these: I fell in lov…

Sep 21

Hello, all. Sorry for the incredible lateness of this post! I have a two-pronged excuse that is half bad and half good. The bad part of the excuse is t…

Aug 23

that I did not write

Aug 15

Sorry for the profusion of emails 😅

Jul 27

My introductory spiel, + the first two chapters of After Virtue

Jul 27

Jul 23

Hi all! Long time no Stack. Nonetheless, this overdue missive is going to be disappointingly short, for two reasons. The first is that, now that it’s p…

Jul 9

Hello, all! I have two new pieces of writing out: This piece, about Markus Gabriel’s new book but also about what form so-called “public philosophy” sh…

May 19

JUST KIDDING, I do not think I am being “cancelled,” or that I am suffering piteously, or that I am the victim of an injustice of any sort, but I do th…

Apr 28

Apr 21

Hello, all! I have two new pieces out: One, in Cabinet, is about three of my favorites, Eric Rohmer, Bataille, and Lionel Trilling. I promise, there AR…

Apr 14

Hi, all! No preliminaries today because I have to survive the “workshopping” of one of my papers in a little over an hour, and I need to drink coffee a…

Mar 23

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