Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Well, not quite yet (you might remonstrate). But it’s coming up (you must concede). So I’ve undertaken a seasonal graphic project that doesn’t involve Photoshopping squid. I love Dickens, and “A Christmas...

The greatest living Irishman signs off. (Has anyone else noticed that the volume on the bbc iplayer goes to 11?) His was the first music show I was aware of on the radio, because once in a while our neighbour, Charles Lossock, would drive me to...

Hey, did I mention that I (we – Belle and I) published a Plato textbook? And that, thanks to me courageously refusing to settle for less, you can read the whole thing free online, even download a complete PDF (print-locked). Well, I’m mentioning it...

I’ve just finished my most enjoyable sustained teaching experience so far. In Fall 2007 I taught a small freshman seminar (with 20 students) on Children, Marriage and the Family. This is part of a program my university has called the Freshman Interest...

Jacob Levy is asking his Facebook friends to nominate their tips for the best political philosophy books (best, most enduring, most interesting) of the decade that Brits are now referring to as “the noughties”. Global justice has obviously been the...