Public philosophy

Since the millennium, there has been a huge increase in the visibility of philosophy, both online and off. There are, of course, books on philosophy, but also numerous popular live events, courses, podcasts, television and radio programmes, and newspaper columns. Philosophy today is as likely to be found on YouTube as it is in a bookshop or library. Just to mention a few examples of freely accessible online public philosophy initiatives: Michael Sandel's 'Justice' course, the BBC's History of Ideas animations, or the many popular philosophy podcasts, including History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps from Peter Adamson, Philosophy Bites from David Edmonds and Nigel Warburton, and the philosophy episodes of the BBC Radio 4 series In Our Time. This complex and heterogeneous phenomenon is generally called 'public philosophy'. It's philosophy done in public rather than behind the doors of seminar or lecture rooms, or in paywalled academic journals... (continues)

https://psyche.co/ideas/what-public-philosophy-is-and-why-we-need-it-more-than-ever

Lorenzo Washington's Other Music City

Jefferson Street Sound Museum brims with stories about the music scene that thrived in North Nashville before I-40. The museum faces an array of pressures, making a visit more important now than ever.
https://t.co/ILp89n0XCV https://t.co/Qvg07BJc9r
(https://twitter.com/NashvilleScene/status/1478058730537172995?s=02)

be happy still

"Considering that, all hatred driven hence,
The soul recovers radical innocence
And learns at last that it is self-delighting,
Self-appeasing, self-affrighting,
And that its own sweet will is Heaven’s will;
She can, though every face should scowl
And every windy quarter howl
Or every bellows burst, be happy still."

Yeats, A Poem for My Daughter, stanza 9-in "Bewilderment: A Novel" by Richard Powers: https://a.co/0IrGQsH