Dear Prof. Whitney,

Thank you for your prompt reply and especially for your interest in this project. Your proposal sounds very promising as no viable notion of the good life can be conceived without taking into account its complicated relationship with economic growth. If I’m not mistaken, The Skidelskys, whom I cite in my brief descri…[Read more]

Hi Laura,

Thanks for developing this topic.  I would be interested in writing on “the good life” as it is addressed by economists and others offering proposals about how to deal with global warming, particularly concerning attitudes toward future economic growth.  In my admittedly limited experience, mainstream economists don’t go much beyond t…[Read more]

I personally love the idea of Shakespeare and Galileo.  Your intuition seems exactly right to see a parallel in the cultural (mental) achievement of the two.  For both, the essence was personal observation rather than illustration of pious dogma, such as we think of when we think of medieval thought. But Shakespeare confined himself to the s…[Read more]

Steve: I’m the Assistant Coordinating Editor of the Internet Shakespeare Editions (internetshakespeare.uvic.ca). If you are willing to share your work in our open-access environment (used by students and scholars in 149+ countries), we’d love to host your stories and interview excerpts. Would you be in touch at your convenience?

Janelle Jenstad…[Read more]