443. Marketplace of Letters: Iberian Humanism

I find it dispiriting that the translation of kilometers into miles should be explicitly directed at a British audience, and reference made to Arsenal with the assumption of widespread understanding. It seems all popular philosophy in the English language is to be found in the UK or Commonwealth countries.

I am glad to hear European doings in other lands cast in moral terms that are a bit more complicated than those of Walt Disney. Good and evil has its place, but it is a category distinction that can be applied well or poorly. University instructors should take the risk of saying unpopular things.

Hi, Peter. Thank you for your answer. Really, all joking aside, Philosophy Now, The Philosopher, The Philosophers' Magazine, are all British outfits, as is your own podcast and the In Our Time series which offers a comparable level of analysis of noteworthy thinkers. The Sophia Club, an organization that hosts soirees organized around a philosophical talk at the center, I think is Australian. If you add to this the fact that there are public intellectuals in France who are given airtime as worth hearing by a general audience, and a TV show in Germany I can think of that also centers on debate of intellectual questions, the United States does seem sterile ground for public philosophy.