Recent Activity
"Can moral virtues become outdated?" 3QuarksDaily, March 12, 2018
"Freedom, private property, and public access," 3QuarksDaily, Feb. 12, 2018
"Administrators - A parable after Kafka," 3QuarksDaily, Jan. 15, 2018
"It's a Wonderful Life in the Age of Trump," 3QuarksDaily, Dec. 18, 2017
"What's so bad about smugness?" Philosophy Now, No. 123, Dec. 2017
Interview with William Israel on The Conversation, August, 2017
"Trying to explain random violence," 3QuarksDaily, Oct. 23, 2017
"Philosophers who like stuff," Humanities, Fall 2017
"The US and North Korea: Pragmatism v Posturing," 3QuarksDaily, Sept. 25, 2017
Panel discussion on living ethically, Big Ideas, ABC radio, Aug. 2017
"What if technology keeps killing more jobs than it creates?" 3QuarksDaily, July 31, 2017
Interview about The Wisdom of Frugality on Live Immediately (podcast)
"Black Victims and White Privilege," 3QuarksDaily, July 3rd, 2017
"The wise and frugal reading list," Slow Magazine, June 29, 2017
"How Republicans could quell fears over their health care bill," 3QuarksDaily, June 5th, 2017
The Art of Manliness, Podcast #303: The Wisdom of Frugality, May 11, 2017
"America's complicated execution methods bespeak a bad conscience," 3QuarksDaily, May 8th, 2017
"Critique of the Smiley Face," 3QuarksDaily, April 10th, 2017
"Why aren't we working less?" 3QuarksDaily, March 13th, 2017
"Post-truth, post-shame politics," 3QuarksDaily, Feb. 13th, 2017
TV Interview on C-Span's 'After Words'
On line chat: "Color of Money" with Washington Post columnist Michelle Singletary
"Just how green is the frugal, simple-living locavore?" 3QuarksDaily, Jan 16th, 2017
Interview on "Spark," CBC Radio, Jan 2017
"Reflections on congestion and technology," 3QuarksDaily, Dec. 19th, 2016
"Why the simple life is not just beautiful but necessary," Aeon, Nov. 2016
Interview on 'The Philosopher's Zone,' ABC, Australian National Radio, Nov. 27, 2016
"Liberal politics and the contingency of history," 3QuarksDaily, Nov. 21, 2016
"Why Black Friday sales are not for the truly frugal," MarketWatch, Nov. 20th, 2016
"Saturated by Stuff," Four by Three, Nov. 2016
Interview on the Joy Cardin show, Wisconsin Public Radio, Oct. 17, 2016
Interview on 'Consider This' with Stuart Campbell, KZYX Public Radio, Oct. 14, 2016
"Our complicated response to extravagance," 3QuarksDaily, Oct. 24th, 2016
Interview on the Gary Null Show, Progressive Radio Network, Sept. 23, 2016
Interview with Debra Liese on frugality, happiness, and everyday ethics (Sept. 2016)
"Personality or Ideology:Which matters most in a political leader?” 3QuarksDaily, Aug. 29th, 2016
"Why Trump's "Make America Great Again' Nostalgia is a Dangerous Political Tool," Timeline, July 25th, 2016
"Does Brexit illuminate Trumpism?" 3QuarksDaily, July 4th, 2016
"An unbeatable deal: America's national parks," 3QuarksDaily, June 6th, 2016
Interview with Steve Patterson on topics in metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of mind
"The problem of stereotypes," 3QuarksDaily, May 9th, 2016
"Why do we laugh?" 3QuarksDaily, April 11th, 2016
"Is unpunctuality a moral failing?" 3QuarksDaily, March 14th, 2016
Why should I respect your stupid opinion? 3QuarksDaily, Feb. 15th, 2016
"The Insulated Lifestyle," 3QuarksDaily, Jan. 19th, 2016.
"Against terrorism, let's try idealism," 3QuarksDaily, Dec. 21st, 2015
Why do we read literary biographies?" 3QuarksDaily, Oct. 26th, 2015
"How not to accuse someone of prejudice," 3QuarksDaily, Sept. 28th, 2015
"How not to accuse someone of prejudice," Think, Autumn 2015)
In praise of footpaths," 3QuarksDaily, August 31st, 2015.
"What problems in education can technology help solve," 3QuarksDaily, August 10th, 2015.
"American politics as the clash of symbols," 3QuarksDaily, June 29th, 2015
"The nostalgic appeal of simplicity," 3QuarksDaily, May 11th, 2015.
"Do we really value thinking for oneself?" 3QuarksDaily, April 13th, 2015
"Lament of the Expunged Metaphor," 3QuarksDaily, March 16th, 2015.
"One and a half cheers for well-meaning bleeding-heart liberals," 3QuarksDaily,
"Why don't more people kill themselves?" 3QuarksDaily, Jan. 19th, 2015
"On fear of surveillance technology," 3QuarksDaily, Dec. 22nd, 2014
"The moral countenance of art," Philosophy Now, Dec. 2014
"The continuing relevance of Immanuel Kant," 3QuarksDaily, Nov. 24th, 2014
"How the 'culture of assessment' fuels academic dishonesty, 3QuarksDaily, Oct. 27th, 2014
"Israel, Gaza, and the Stupidity of Leaders," 3QuarksDaily, Sept. 29th, 2014
"Why I don't like tipping" 3QuarksDaily, Sept. 1st, 2014
"Karl Marx's Guiding Idea," 3QuarksDaily, August 4th, 2014
"The meaning of apples," 3QuarksDaily, July 7th, 2014
"Against needless complexity" 3QuarksDaily, June 9th, 2014
"When are you past your prime?" 3QuarksDaily, May 12th, 2104
"The conflict between competition and leisure," 3QuarksDaily, April 14, 2014
"Why Amazon reminds me of the British empire," 3QuarksDaily, March 17, 2014
"Do our moral beliefs need to be consistent?" 3QuarksDaily, Feb. 17, 2014.
"Do good books improve us?" (3QuarksDaily, Jan 20, 2014)
"The Sandy Hook massacre-one year on," 3QuarksDaily, Dec 23, 2013
"Why you can't buy a first class ticket to Utopia," 3QuarksDaily, Nov. 25, 2013
"The Philosophy of Frugality" (Public lecture at Alfred University, Dec. 6, 2012)
"What's so bad abut behaving badly?" Interview on The Forum (BBC World Service)
Interview with Julian Baggini (Microphilosophy podcast)
5 Books interview for The Browser
On New Year's Resolutions (The Daily Beast, Dec. 31st, 2011)
Interview with Joy Cardin on Wisconsin Public Radio, Dec. 15, 2011
Interview with Seán Moncrieff on Newstalk (Irish Independent Radio Station), Nov. 14, 2011 (Part 4)
Interview on ABC Radio National (Australia), Nov. 10, 2011
Interview on Talk Radio Europe (Nov. 10, 2011)
"Will the great corrupters please rise," (article in The Humanist (Nov. 2011)
"How to handle four letter words" (Jezebel, Sept. 2011)
Interview on surveillance ethics ('Spark', CBC Toronto), April, 2011)