James Williams

Everything Is Better with Zombies–Including Western Metaphysics: ‘The Walking Dead and Philosophy’

What’s So Funny About Truth, Beauty, and Goodness? ‘Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed’

Essayists on the Essay: Montaigne to Our Time

‘Elizabeth I’: Thick Book, Thin Characters

Guitar Wank for the Smart Set: Mark Dery’s ‘I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts’

Murder, Mayhem, and Book Collecting: ‘The School of Night’

It’s Hard (Not) to Be Human: ‘What It Means to Be Human: Reflections from 1791 to the Present’

‘Florence & Baghdad: Renaissance Art and Arab Science’

‘The Map of Time’ Is a Mélange of, Well, Pretty Much Everything

‘Otherwise Known as the Human Condition’: Rarefied Pleasures of State-Funded Bohemian Consumerism

‘Monsters of the Gévaudan’: The Beast that Lurks between Worlds

Nicholas Phillipson’s ‘Adam Smith’ Sheds Light on a Seminal but Obscure Philosopher

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