We did it! From start to finish, the #JoyfulJoyfulOdetoMemphis project was completed in less than a week. In fact, the studio recording and video editing were done in less than 48 hours! To get some idea of what an undertaking this was, read the backstory here. One of my favorite quotes about Memphis (from Robert…
Read MoreThese are the letters from the second day of the 2014 Grading War. If you landed here by accident and don’t know what you’re reading, click here for the backstory. Day Four, 11:22am Dear Charles, I post this report on my station during a brief tho welcome respite. Forgive my wretched penmanship. I write quickly &…
Read MoreThese are the letters from the second day of the 2014 Grading War. If you landed here by accident and don’t know what you’re reading, click here for the backstory. Day Three, 9:33am My Dear Friend Charles, Your letter from yesterday was rec’d in due time, and would have been answered ere now, but for the…
Read MoreThese are the letters from the second day of the 2014 Grading War. If you landed here by accident and don’t know what you’re reading, click here for the backstory. Day Two, 3:05am My Dearest Leigh, You cannot imagine my joy upon receiving your letter! I worked ceaselessly to fend off any and all of…
Read MoreThese are the letters from the first day of the 2014 Grading War. If you landed here by accident and don’t know what you’re reading, click here for the backstory. Day One, 12:40am My Dear Leigh, It has been far too long since I’ve written to you. For this transgression, I can only hope you can…
Read MoreMy good friend and colleague Charles McKinney and I are continuing our #GradingWarLetterstoHome correspondence this term. If you’re unfamiliar with the backstory of how this hilariously ridiculous endeavor got started, I refer you to the archive of last year’s correspondences here, which also explains the origin and style of these letters. To save you a click…
Read MoreA pen (or keyboard) has, for millennia, been both the preferred and most essential tool of a philosopher, but I consider my camera to be a very close second as a 21stC philosopher. Since completing the American Values Project in 2012, I’ve come to understand my camera as another weapon in the struggle against ignorance and,…
Read MoreWe continue awaiting the decision of a grand jury on whether or not to indict Darren Wilson, a white police officer, who shot and killed Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, exactly 15 weeks ago today on a suburban street in Ferguson, Missouri. News reporters from across the globe have been camped out in Ferguson for…
Read MoreMuch to my own embarrassment, I’ve neglected to post here on the Steven Salaita controversy thus far, an affair with far-reaching implications not only for how we determine what constitutes both the civic and academic limits to the “right to free speech,” but also for a number of hiring-and-firing practices that are customary within the Academy but…
Read MoreIf the current results of Brian Leiter’s poll (which asks whether or not he should continue producing the Philosophical Gourmet Report) are any indication– it’s 1709 to 1118 in favor of “No” votes as I write this– and if Leiter intends to take those poll results as some sort of mandate, then Philosophy may very well…
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