Photo of my piece, "Reciprocal Goodwill Is Answer to Flag Issue," on The USA Today Web site.

Top Tweets and Highlights of 2015 – My First Storify

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I’ve made my first Storify post, which I used to gather some of the big moments from 2015. You can find it either by clicking on the photo above or here:

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Signed Copies of ‘Uniting Mississippi’ for Southern Bound Book Shop

Beautiful day in Biloxi! Just met the owner of Southern Bound Book Shop. If you live nearby and can’t make it to the signing tonight, you can head there for a signed copy later. They also have a store in Ocean Springs. If you live closer to Bay Saint Louis, Bay Books will have copies…

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Self-Respect and a Sense of Positive Power [Essay]

My regular, public writing is starting up again, as we’re getting settled in. Over the course of a few busy months, some of my pieces have come out in academic outlets, like the essay I posted last week. Here’s a further piece published this year (2016) in The Journal of Speculative Philosophy. It’s titled “Self-Respect…

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Southern Secessionist Defends MS Flag – MPB Intvw

You need to watch this. William Flowers, a man from Georgia, came to a demonstration in Jackson, MS, as a leader in the effort to defend the Mississippi flag, which features an emblem of the Confederate Battle Flag. He leads the self-described southern nationalist group, League of the South. This interview is not simply someone with…

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Interview on BAM South’s Midlife Criss podcast

[featured-image link=”bamsouth.com/category/podcast/” link_single=”bamsouth.com/category/podcast/” single_newwindow=”true” alt=”Photo of a microphone in front of a soundboard.”] I had a great time talking with Jack Criss on BAM South’s Midlife Criss podcast. The interview will soon be up on BAM South’s site, but for now Jack’s posted the interview on Sound Cloud. The player is here below. Jack is…

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The Risks of Public Engagement, Part I

I and others may well be guilty of romanticizing public philosophy. Fellow Dewey scholar and a prolific writer, Shane Ralston, has published a warning for people interested in engaging in public philosophy. In “On the Perils of Public Philosophy,” Ralston rightly recognizes both that there is a resurgence in the movement for publicly engaged philosophy…

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5 Reasons Scholars Need Facebook Author Pages

Scholars tend to be shy or humble, often going to great lengths to avoid anything that might smack of self-promotion or over-confidence. There’s good reason for this. The academy trains you to be skeptical, to demand evidence, and to be reserved about matters that you’ve not yet carefully considered. [featured-image link=”http://etweber.wp2.olemiss.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/30/2015/08/Bertrand-Russell-1951-014.jpg” link_single=”http://etweber.wp2.olemiss.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/30/2015/08/Bertrand-Russell-1951-014.jpg” single_newwindow=”true” alt=”Image of Bertrand…

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