Receiving the 2012 Thomas F. Frist Student Service Award It was an honor to have been chosen for the 2012 Thomas F. Frist Student Service Award at the University of Mississippi. PPL graduate Kaylen Addison snapped this great photo of the moment when I was up at the podium to receive the award. The next pic…
Believe it or not, I follow the advice in this video every day. It’s brilliantly simple. It’s also serious. If each of us were really to make a little effort of this kind, the impact would be enormous. It saves on paper use, which cuts down on costs, and it slows the growth of landfills,…
A professor from my undergraduate years gave me some of the most important advice I’ve ever received for a career in academia. First, he asked me: “How are you at taking criticism?” With a bit of a shrug, I said “Ok, I suppose.” He then explained that “If you can take criticism well, you can go very…
This is the interview I gave Cherita Brown of Mississippi Public Broadcasting, MS’s NPR affiliate, and Professor Richard Gershon of the University of Mississippi School of Law on the relationship between the law and morality. Cherita also interviewed me about my forthcoming book, Uniting Mississippi: Democracy and Leadership in the South. I hope to joint them…
Presentation: “A Culture of Support and Merit: Promoting Independence without Stigmatizing Dependency” Abstract: In A Culture of Justice, I argue that a society has a shared, public obligation to foster self-respect and a sense of positive power in all people. Libertarians like Robert Nozick deny that there is a shared obligation to provide people the means to…
Invited to give a talk in The Purdue Lectures in Ethics, Policy, and Science series.
Heading to the University of Southern Mississippi to talk about Uniting Mississippi for their Mississippi Humanities Council-supported “Philosophical Fridays” program.
Excited to have been invited to comment on John Lachs’s work, after his keynote address.
Looking forward to visiting folks at the Clinton School for Public Service at the University of Arkansas, in Little Rock, where I’ll be talking about Uniting Mississippi: Democracy and Leadership in the South.
Excited to be talking with folks in Oxford about leadership in Mississippi and the South.
Looking forward to talking with new teachers.
I will be talking about John Lachs’s stoic pragmatism. [featured-image single_newwindow=”false” alt=”Photo of John Lachs, to whom the Berlin conference is dedicated.”] [/featured-image]