Running Ideas
Nicolas DelonPhilosophy, Animals, Running, and More
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We Have (Almost) Never Been Speciesists
Adapted from my article “La banalité du pire des maux,” just out (open access) in Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review (link to the article). I wrote about François Jaquet’s Le pire des maux (Eliott éditions, 2024) for a book symposium....
Recent reading (mid 2026), part 2
The Big One
Plato, Republic
Recommended. There is very little I literally endorse, philosophically speaking, in Plato. But if you read it as comedy, peppered with fantasy, and perhaps all good comedy is philosophical in some sense, then...
Recent reading (mid 2026), part 1
I am back with some quick notes about what I’ve been reading. Summer travel makes reading incomprehensibly harder, so the last month has been slow, but I’m otherwise on track to read 50 books this year. To ease my return to writing, this on...
Publishing Without Romance
Happy New Year!
What follows is a theory I’m not sure I endorse. It may be too cynical to be true.
In 2018, I was fortunate to audit Saul Levmore’s Public Choice at the University of Chicago Law School, a hotbed of law and economic...
2025 on Substack
I didn’t write much in 2025, but I was generally pleased with what I did write. A few posts got some attention (it’s all relative). In this post, I list what I consider my top three essays of the year and my ten or so favorite essays by fel...
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Teaches philosophy at the College of Charleston. "I’m pessimistic about a lot of things, but there’s no reason to be miserable about it." —Cormac McCarthy
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