Costica Bradatan is a Professor of Humanities at Texas Tech University and an Honorary Research Professor of Philosophy at University of Queensland, Australia. He is the author or editor of 10 books, most recently Dying for Ideas. The Dangerous Lives of the Philosophers (Bloomsbury, 2015) and In Praise of Failure (forthcoming, Harvard UP), has written for The New York Times, The New Statesman, Times Literary Supplement, Dissent Magazine, The Boston Review, The Daily Beast, Christian Science Monitor, The Globe & Mail, and other similar venues. Bradatan serves as the Religion/Comparative Studies Editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books.