Summer Reading List 2026

June 28, 2026

The Philosophers talk to the authors of recent and forthcoming books that speak to our dangerous times: Christopher Star from Middlebury College, editor of How to Face the End of the World: An Ancient Guide for Apocalyptic Times; Christian Miller from Wake Forest University, author of The Honesty Crisis: Preserving Our Most Treasured Virtue in an Increasingly Dishonest World; and Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of The Mattering Instinct: How Our Deepest Longing Drives Us and Divides Us.

Got other suggestions for thoughtful summer reading in this fraught historical moment? Send them to comments@philosophytalk.org.

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Christopher Star, Professor of Classics, Middlebury College




Author Rebecca Newberger Goldstein




Christian Miller, Professor of Philosophy, Wake Forest University

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