There are few blogs in the wide and tangled landscapes of the web as unapologetically highbrow as Crooked Timber. The name itself derives from Immanuel Kant's maxim, "Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing was ever made." Founded in 2003 in an intellectually vigorous merger of several academic blogs, Crooked Timber has since been lauded by the Guardian, New York Times, and others....

Ordinary Philosophy is a blog and podcast by Amy Cools that is dedicated to the intersections of philosophy and daily life. Cools studied philosophy at Sacramento State University and is currently pursuing a M.Sc. in intellectual history at the University of Edinburgh. Ordinary Philosophy is comprised of four sections. In the history of ideas section, Cools writes about influential thinkers of all...