Henry directed me to the following: The New Hellenism (lareviewofbooks.org) As you infer from the URL, that is an essay in the L.A. Review of Books, about a trend in philosophy since 2010, a trend toward a far less academic and more accessible style. The essay is by Crispin Sartwell, an essayist whose prose is always accessible. Here is a snippet: " In effect, every aspect of philosophy is being transformed or reimagined today, just as Epicurus produced letters or Epictetus aphorisms rather than Aristotelian treatises on logic. The basic forms are not the 20-page journal article with 123 footnotes or the bristlingly dry and difficult 400-page monograph, one-third of which is 'scholarly apparatus.' Rather, what you get from Agnes Callard or Justin Smith is a sharp, unexpected 2,500-word essay in a blog or newspaper. "One of the shaping influences on the development of public philosophy, the personal/philosophical essay, and intellectual self-help was th...