Barry Lam

She’s going to be White House Correspondent for Washington Times before graduation.

2025 Non-Obvious Book Award Winners See the full list of winners of the 2025 Non-Obvious Book Awards Longlist and Shortlist.

Who needs the New Yorker or the New York Times, I’m long-listed for the NonObvious Book Award. Now that’s punk rock! www.nonobviousbookawards.com/2025/

So great to see philosophy friend and @wwnorton.com -mate @jeffsebo.bsky.social on the list of 2025 best books from the New Yorker!

When journalists get fed up or fired, they themselves become content creators on Substack, Instagram and Tik Tok. The tech platforms and monetization schemes reward it, for now. When they have monopoly power, they’ll all be Twitter. Journalism is now a mission, not a profession.

Yes just write to publicity at Norton, they’ll send you a review copy. Amina Washington. awashington@wwnorton.com

Journalists are being replaced by content creators like the Ship of Theseus, one plank at a time, gradually enough that even the editors don’t know it.

Fewer Rules, Better People: The Case for Discretion The Case for Discretion

Dear Sir or Madam, will you read my book?
It took me years to write, will you take a look?
It’s based on reporting by a man named Lam
And I need a job so I want to be a paperback writer.

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Now that Timothy Williamson’s Tetralogue is turning into a feature film, I’d like to lobby all of my peers to revive philosophical dialogue writing as a reputable research as well as non-fiction genre. It is one of the lost arts distinctive of our field.

Videos Videos of Philosophy Day at CCNY talks Barry Lam (2025) on public philosophy in the real world Rob Colter (2024) on philosophy in the Ivory Tower and behind Bars Lewis Gordon (2023) on Harlem and t…

City College New York uploaded my lecture from Thursday. I don't think I've ever watched an entire one of my own lectures, so I can't say I recommend it, but if you're interested. philosophydayatccny.org/videos/

This is the correct take. Cake is a descendant of bread, broadly construed. Pie is a descendant of custards and puddings, broadly construed. As a result, cake inherits far more possible flaws than pie.

Look at the faculty list of City College New York Philosophy in 1959. What a privilege it was to give a talk here on Thursday.

It was already widely reported that RFK Jr. didn’t believe in the germ theory of disease, but now we know he’s willing to put his money where his mouth is.

Really jarring watching Marge explaining her millennial 90s high school fashion trends to Lisa. The writers need to really figure out this non-aging plotline because the logical conclusion is Marge and Homer explaining what it was like going to high school during the pandemic.

Join us in person or on Zoom on Thursday 12/4 as we host @hiphination.bsky.social for 2 back-to-back events!

1) Humanities Podcasting hiphination.org

2) Delegating Decisions to Machines? The Case for Human Discretion

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The cultural aristocracy is as cringe as the moneyed ones.

Man, the cultural aristocracy is even more cringe than the moneyed one. (This is a Nuzzi sub-skeet).

Me: Generative AI is technological pollution. It is a rotting carcass on top of an already enshittified internet.

Internet: Here’s Vin Scully calling the bottom of the 11th inning of Game 7, World Series 2025.

Me: 🥹…😭.

New York City, come see me give the keynote at World Philosophy Day at City College New York, Finding Philosophical Conflicts in the Real World, a love letter to philosophical journalism. Next Thursday Nov. 20th at 6pm. www.ccny.cuny.edu/calendar/ann...

Consciousness is overrated. I’m conscious, and I can’t do multiple layers of matrix multiplication. I couldn’t even remember the mineral water I’ve ordered 30 times in the past. Was in Tampico? Pico de Gallo? Consciousness is the precondition for preferring to be unconscious.

What is the tax rate at which billionaires won’t leave the city and also would pay rather than move money around so as to avoid the taxes?

Hey @mixedlinguist.bsky.social, I just heard an exchange whereby someone "goes to the gym" even if they never work out at the gym. As in "hey Jimmy, you look like you go to the gym." Jimmy, who works out at home says: "I do." What's this called? Idiom, euphemism? Seems more interesting than that.

Bay Area peeps! See you at 2pm today (11/2), Book Passage in the Ferry Bldg!

If you can't make it today, come find me at Stanford's "Philosophers for a Brighter World" working group tomorrow at 4!

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you’re not going to get me to say anything bad about Ohtani.

All of you trying to shame us Angelinos on social justice grounds, I get it. No one likes the moneyed Goliath. But, I mean, know your baseball history a little.

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Look if we’re allowed to fantasize about the storybook ending, Ohtani for the go ahead, Kershaw for the save.

it’s like the baseball gods wanted to manufacture the most dramatic end to this series.

The Mattering Map | Rebecca Goldstein | Substack Rebecca Newberger Goldstein's reflections on Philosophy, Fiction, Science, & Human Longing. Click to read The Mattering Map, by Rebecca Goldstein, a Substack publication. Launched 2 hours ago.

I can’t believe it, the great Rebecca Goldstein is now on Substack! Everyone go read and subscribe now! The Mattering Map rebeccanewbergergoldstein.substack.com?r=i44h&utm_c...

Rojas the hero tonight. Dodgers can’t win tomorrow unless they pick it up on offense, but it’s one game, anything can happen. Hell of a series.

Looking forward to all of the think pieces about how to understand the Mamdani voter, why unreasonable demands of orthodox thinking drove voters to Mamdani, and why we need to tone down the rhetoric so as not to alienate Mamdani voters.