Mark D. White

Writer, editor, teacher

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  • Typepad, the former home of this site/blog (as well as Economics and Ethics and The Comics Professor) is shutting down at the end of September, so I will be moving whatever I can from these blogs to WordPress. (The uncertainty is due to the fact that most all of my content seems to have disappeared…

  • After our commencement exercises yesterday, my 27th year at the College of Staten Island is over; as of June 30, my 14th and final year as department chair will be over as well. (Although my able successor officially takes over on July 1, I will continue as summer department chair until the fall semester begins…

  • Today is the release day of my latest book, Ethics of the Fantastic Four, the fourth (natch) volume in my A Philosopher Reads… series at Ockham Publishing (even though the title does not reflect this). Unlike my recent Thor and Daredevil books, Ethics of the Fantastic Four is full-length, about 80K words, with the print…

  • This will be brief, as this was not a good year, especially in terms of new work… I had two books published this year, Rights versus Antitrust and the second edition of The Virtues of Captain America; you can see the various podcasts and blog posts for their dedicated pages (here and here, respectively). I…