Reminded today of this very nice compliment from Tom Stoppard (his favorite book of 2020)

Bill Twining, superb legal scholar and kind man, has died. Here he is in his lovely garden in Iffley, not very long ago.

Oxford Pragmatism, discounted.

Lovely review. I look forward to reading the book. At first glance, I was sure that was you on the deck!

Wow! That pic is a keeper!

A little bit of feel-good in a shitty world.

Thanks. It’s one of the most rewarding projects I’ve been involved in.

Hot off the press: Michael Kremer’s and my resurrection of Margaret Macdonald.

@huwprice.bsky.social, you are a direct cause of this book!

Wow!

Thanks for the kind words, David!

Thanks!

You should read it in Oxford, as you read Cambridge Pragmatism in Cambridge!

New arrival: Final installment of my trilogy on the ripple effects of American pragmatism.

The Day The Mississippi Died YouTube video by Gillian Welch - Topic

The great Gillian Welch summing up the state of America in words that will haunt. "I do believe we've broken what we never knew could break. @roberttalisse.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0Ht...

Fabulous appointment to the British Academy!

Part of my argument is that Wittgenstein was the old genius at Ramsey’s side!

Why does the Swedish translation of my Ramsey biography have Ludwig on the cover??

Canada’s Trump-Fueled Brain Gain

There have been a ton of news items about American academics moving to the University of Toronto. Today's in the NYT is the best of them:
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/w...

Tommie Shelby giving the Walter Benjamin Lectures in the Miriam Makeba Auditorium.

Otto Neurath giving a tour good social housing/gardens.

Alan Richardson describing Quine’s autobiography perfectly: On the Road if it had been told by the car. @roberttalisse.bsky.social

Looking forward to joining you tomorrow!

Giving a talk in Frankfurt at the wonderful Normative Orders Centre in Frankfurt.

The city of Berlin, speaking truth.

Come and remember Chris Hookway if you’re in the Sheffield neighborhood! www.sheffield.ac.uk/hpdh/events/...

Neil Young returns home with solo benefit concert in Ontario’s Kawartha Lakes The show before more than 2,000 people on a soggy Friday was for a historic farm belonging to Lakefield College School, not far from both Young’s cottage and his childhood home

Long may you run.
www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/article...

JAMES TILL Obituary (2025) - The Globe and Mail View JAMES EDGAR TILL's obituary, send flowers and sign the guestbook.

RIP James Till. Discoverer of stem cells. He and McCulloch should have won a Nobel Prize for it.
www.legacy.com/ca/obituarie...

Have a talk at Humbolt U today. This is Hegel’s desk.

Rural Alberta Advantage was an Alberta gov't slogan in the 70s, picked up by this indie band (one of whom I think was raised in rural Alberta), who then went on to sing about the Frank slide. I heartily recommend a visit!