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In reply to Roderick T. Long. That certainly happens; I’ve seen it happen myself. But your classes are liable to be an unrepresentative convenience sample. You might ask, “Have you ever encountered a news story that informed you about somet…

In reply to Vicente Medina. I agree with all of that. (And thank you for the kind comments.) On your first point, I know that there is something called the Public Philosophy Network that tries to encourage philosophers to make philosophically informed …

Irfan, congratulations on this rather illuminating posting on the Covid-19 pandemic and the role of journalists and philosophers. If I may add one point to your argument, I think that one of the problems that philosophers face nowadays is that we no lo…

One reason I’m pessimistic about journalism is — Well, I used to ask my students “how many of you have seen something on the tv news or in the newspaper that you have some particular connection to or knowledge about?” Most of th…

In reply to Brandon. Agreed.

I thought she did a good job in that movie. I’m surprised she didn’t get more and better acting work.