Daily Archives: January 15, 2016

Reflections on Bernard Williams

Nakul Krishna has a well written piece on the late, great, moral philosopher Bernard Williams, one of the giants of 20th century moral philosophy, as told through the lens of his (Krishna’s) own experience as a philosophy grad student: [Morality: … Continue reading

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Eagleton on Hitchens

Terry Eagleton has a lovely tribute to the late Christopher Hitchens. Both are/were men of the Left. Hitchens was a Trotskyite his entire life, but with the iconoclastic flourishes of a Marxist who, post 9/11, embraced (and tried to theoretically … Continue reading

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