Ideas of Imperfection

(a podcast in which I ask philosophers five questions about themselves)

Joshua Prager has written a sublime, prosaic book about the "shot heard round the world": Bobby Thomson's home run to win the...

Two passages to begin with. First, from Martin Amis, The Information : "What did they say? Did anyone say anything?" Yes. The man ...

[Warning to the reader: the remarks that follow cite no-one and do not attempt to engage with details; but they are in part a response to th...

Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. So begins John Berryman's Dream Song 14. His instruction was ignored by Bernard Williams...