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Ethical Episodes

That Was The Year That Was

by Joel Marks

On 19 January, 1999, I sent an email to one Rick Lewis, Editor of Philosophy Now, inquiring whether the magazine might be in the market for another columnist. A friend of mine had returned from vacation with a copy in hand to show me. I instantly glommed on to it, perceiving a perfect match for my aspirations. Prior to that I had already been a newspaper columnist for a decade, but those columns tended to put current events first and philosophy last, whereas I yearned to reverse the priority. Either way, however, I had become a fan of the form, and for two reasons.

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