The due date for submissions to the Tenth Annual Felician Conference on Ethics and Public Affairs has been extended a week to March 8.

As I said, I’m on hiatus from active blogging, but that doesn’t stop me from doing passive blogging. In case you’re wondering, this is what a passive post looks like.

So here’s my cousin Sabahat Zakariya on SoundCloud, doing a piece for NYU Radio called “Muslimish of New York.” It’s an amusing-informative description of the situation of the younger generation of Muslim American apostates–rejecting of Islam, but wary of Islamophobia. I know the feeling.

By way of introduction: Sabahat is a Falak Sufi Scholar in the Department of Near East Studies at New York University, and in the master’s program in journalism there. She’s a single mom, speaks in a thick Aitchison College brogue, and makes the best chicken biryani in Park Slope. She’s (kinda) promised to do some blogging at PoT, but she’s busy, so who knows.

I’ve decided to take a bit of a hiatus from active blogging. I’m just finding it impossible to blog and keep up with my other commitments–teaching, running a pre-law program, running an ethics institute, co-chairing a committee on leadership and social justice, and trying to get a degree in psychology. I’ll probably be taking at least a month off, but may well take the rest of the spring term off.

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Last call for papers or abstracts (papers preferred) in ethics or political philosophy for the Tenth Annual Conference of the Felician Institute for Ethics and Public Affairs. Due date is March 1 March 8. The conference itself runs all day, Saturday, April 23, 2016 in the Education Commons Building of Felician University’s Rutherford campus: 227 Montross Ave., Rutherford, New Jersey, 07070. Plenary speaker is J.L.A. Garcia (Boston College), “Grounding the Metatheory of Morals.”

Please note the call for papers/abstracts for a special dedicated session on the ethics, politics, and economics of adjuncting.

Send papers in blind review format to felicianethicsconference@gmail.com. More information here.

There’s been a lot of politics on this blog lately. Though I am in some sense a historian of political philosophy, I don’t much like politics, but I do like philosophy. So I thought I’d try to make a more purely philosophical contribution. It’s not that politics is unimportant. It’s just that it’s, so, well…frustrating. Then again, so is much contemporary philosophy. So perhaps I’ll just be trading one source of frustration for another. Let’s see.

What follows is a first attempt to get straight on some issues that have been simmering in the back of my mind for a while. I have no doubt that my formulations of these issues will be somewhat crude and in need of considerable qualification, if not revision. But that’s what I need you for.

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