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Month: March 2016

It’s Time To Get Rid of Formatting Guidelines for Academic Journals

March 22, 2016 Leigh M. Johnson Philosophy, Professional Academy, Public Philosophy, RMWMTMBM Archive Comments Off on It’s Time To Get Rid of Formatting Guidelines for Academic Journals

This morning, I was reading an engaging and superbly well-written book that I’ve been asked to review for philoSOPHIA and found myself, in spite of its merits, grumbling aloud about the very experience of reading it.  Why? One word: Endnotes. I truly hate the maddening inconvenience of endnotes. All those unnecessary interruptions, all that flipping back…

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Lone Wolves, Together: On Trump’s Curious Farrago

March 19, 2016 Leigh M. Johnson Democracy, Philosophy, Politics, Public Philosophy, RMWMTMBM Archive Comments Off on Lone Wolves, Together: On Trump’s Curious Farrago

Like many people, I’ve found myself referring to “Trump supporters” in the last several weeks as a conceptually coherent, identifiable category of voters/citizens and, correspondingly, referring to the things “they” do as the actions of that collective. And every single time, I feel the words slipping, grinding, and catching, as if the very transmission system…

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