This letter from listener Brian Bethel comes as a response to our recent episodes on politics and Richard Rorty's Achieving Our Country, particularly to my criticisms of identity politics and the left (which Mark, Seth, and Dylan as far as I know generally do not share). I don't have a response to this right now—I'm working on a systematic exposition on my views on all of this Continue Reading …
Letter to the Editor: ‘I Don’t Think God Was Dead, Maybe He Was Just Hiding’
Bridget Groff of Houston, TX sends us this very nice letter about her experience with PEL: Dear Partially Examined Life, I am 20 years old. I am a female. I am not very large in stature and my face can perhaps only be described as cherubic. I’m a philosophy major. I attend a (very) small, Catholic liberal arts college in Houston, Texas. I was raised Catholic and was Continue Reading …