In 2022, philosopher Erin Kelly won a Pulitzer Prize for Biography. Last year Kate Manne was a finalist for a National Book Award. As a field, some of us should strive to win these things. It would be particularly amazing if we ever won any of these specifically for philosophy.

Why I Hate how PE is taught in Public Schools, and how what it says about the philosophy of education. open.substack.com/pub/hiphinat...

Wouldn’t it be funny if these AI-polyamorous people, people with many different AI-companions, decide after a couple months that it’s just too high maintenance?

I’m so old Im asleep by 10:30pm, and have been for years. But I do watch bits and clips, and I have to say, even independent of all the current events, it’s been a really good era for late night. I think it’s been a golden age.

This piece is amazing. Incredible. Couldn't agree with it more. What insightful and provocative source material. Bravo.

From a chair’s perspective, this is what the politics of course scheduling feels like. open.substack.com/pub/hiphinat...

Every “the problem with college these days” thinkpiece cites all these practices only the Yales, Stanfords, and Dukes of the world can afford to do. The modal college student commutes into a state school, does some classes online, majors in business, health, or engineering, and finishes in 6 years.

Join me and friends at NYU for an afternoon about podcasting as scholarship. Everyone welcome but must RSVP w/ Fanny Gribinski, Mara Mills, Benjamen Walker, @chenjerai.bsky.social Barry Lam, @bartona104.bsky.social, Joy Connolly, Robert Boynton. 10/10/25. www.paperlesspost.com/go/BBrDGDgfL...

Quietly without any fanfare or hype or endless profiles across more that three decades, Mike Judge has got to be the greatest comedy mind of this generation. If you just look at the entire body of work and its quality and impact and social commentary, it’s so impressive.

“Her tumor turned out to be benign, but her anger was malignant.” Can’t tell if I should learn to write like Dateline NBC or learn to do the opposite.

Are your invitations to speak or participate in events ramping up? Here is a guide to best practices I wrote, for both people being invited and also people doing to inviting, including everything you wanted to know about money. open.substack.com/pub/hiphinat...

When you’re in one of those moods, so you put on “Con te partiro” on Spotify, and a Gen X on the train happens to look over, and sees the Bocelli on the screen, so I quickly switch it to Rage Against the Machine to keep my cred.

Oh shit, just realized that the Nobel Laureate who came to my talk last week was John Coetzee. Funny how things don't register until way later! Where to start with his books? connect.adelaide.edu.au/nodes/view/2...

So grateful to Frank Augugliaro for designing the cover of our new book! Available everywhere on Sep 16 but never too early to preorder: somebody-book.com @dryan149.bsky.social @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social #SocialChange

I went to follow an Australian pop culture icon on Instagram to feel more connected to the country. Then the algorithm does me dirty by recommending a very non-Australian icon. Do better Instagram.

Google AI, killing it again.

Really honored to have been invited to give the Gavin David Young lecture 2025 at the University of Adelaide. If Lewis, Quine, Dennett, and Putnam were good enough why not Barry Lam?

I learned a lot from this post about the way many are mistaken about the relationship between strategy and morality in war. The World Learned the Wrong Lesson from Hiroshima open.substack.com/pub/grahampa...

What is the preferred name of this item of clothing?

Since I was in my 30s, I became convinced that the best time to peak was in my 50s. I never really had to defend why. I did that today.

I’m way too old, and haven’t been single since I was 19. But the discourse gives me the impression that young people are all on apps screening out each other by undesirable traits, men screen out unhot women, women screen out short men. Isn’t that enough to entail men not getting laid?

I love this episode of Decoder Ring about the culture war issue: do Brits or Americans have better teeth? Raises a lot of philosophical questions: do you include aesthetics into measures of well-being? slate.com/podcasts/dec...

I wrote abiut EA and the hazards of joining causes based on the latest academic trends. open.substack.com/pub/hiphinat...

Starting to feel a little bad for the Coldplay couple.

When in Oz, do as the Aussies do.

Inspired by @jennifermmorton.bsky.social piece in the @nytimes.com, I wrote about Viewpoint Diversity and the one time I interviewed the psychiatrist who the Catholic Church hires to investigate reporting of demon possessions. open.substack.com/pub/hiphinat...

If you pick up a bottle of water and then scan it at the self-checkout in the airport, it will default to a 10% tip unless you opt out, or opt into a larger tip. Post-Covid tipping practices generated from tap-payment services in the US are the endpoint of behavioral econ social engineering.

@add-hawk.bsky.social Hopefully you can figure out how this place works, I have no blue sky game, and never had a twitter one either.

Uh oh @willa.bsky.social. Did you know I was a lindy hop teacher in the 90s? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/a...

Our favorite roadside diner is usually packed. Yesterday, empty. I asked the owner why, she said “look around.” The street was abandoned. Construction workers were building at less than half staff. “Everyone is gone. It’s ICE-Is. My cooks are gone. I had to hire someone who’s never cooked before.”

Jen developed this just two weeks ago in our workshop and now it’s out. Great job!

Ever wonder how many meanings "room temperature" can have? No? Then this post isn't for you. This is what I was working on a decade ago but never finished to start a podcast. open.substack.com/pub/hiphinat...

Oh, poor Grigor Dimitrov! Winning handily against the world #1 and tears his pec muscle.

I was on the Chasing Leviathan podcast talking about Fewer Rules, Better People. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVTP...

Writing a trade book in philosophy is thinking that you can advertise with a nice looking flyer an eight hour monologue featuring only your thoughts, and betting at least 20,000 people will buy a ticket for $35.

Hua Hsu writes about the end of the college essay in the New Yorker, with an appearance by both my wife and I. The End of the Essay www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Liam on the value of grad school as derived from the value of doing philosophy: progress on questions that then evolve into science.

In person, Robert Krulwich is exactly like he was on the radio. Really entertaining. A force of nature. I can’t believe how lucky I’ve been to meet my media heroes.

This week I learned that the cure for all anxiety is to “just let them”, and I gotta say I’m not blown away.

What do the Rise of Skywalker and McMansion have in common with Derek Parfit? I wrote about whether the academic philosophy publishing model creates a "too many cooks in the kitchen" problem. open.substack.com/pub/hiphinat...

When is it Moral Just Because it is Normal? I wrote about why I'm not a moral relativism but am challenged by them. open.substack.com/pub/hiphinat...

Wes' password only uses the letters A, R, T and O. His password is seven letters long, and it still works if you use it backwards. What is Wes' password? Loving the new game show, on Fox & Hulu, the 1% Club hosted by Joel McHale. Only 1% of Americans can get this question right within 30 seconds!

Watching 12, hour long episodes of Andor, and then watching Rogue One, is actually a good lesson in the strengths and weaknesses of on-demand self-curated media and legacy media. It’s the difference between YouTube versus cable, streaming versus network, Substack versus magazines.

Urte L. has a piece at Aeon! aeon.co/essays/one-w...

The ad algorithms are trying to sell me an AI tennis ball machine, and I think my odd combination of loving to be on court and misanthropy is making it tempting.

Graham Parsons on the PBS News Hour about the use of military troops for domestic law enforcement.

Being fact-checked by the New Yorker is wild. Did I say “boy they fuckin’ failed the exam miserably.” Yes I think I did say that.

Kevin Corcoran just finished an epic multi-week review of Fewer Rules Better People at the EconLib blog. It is a critique from classical libertarianism. It is at times critical and other times friendly, but overall it is charitable and very thorough. www.econlib.org/author/kcorc...

This conversation with @hiphination.bsky.social about the philosophy of budget math is my favorite episode of Slate Money in a very long time slate.com/podcasts/sla...