Sad news from Obsidian Wings: hilzoy, one of the most insightful bloggers on the internets is retiring from blogging. I’ll honor hilzoy’s pseudonymity, but it’s been compromised frequently and often enough that her identity is readily discoverable. She’s interesting to this blog in part because, like a number of other important bloggers, she’s an academic. More specifically, she’s a moral philosopher and bioethicist (she’s entirely open about this fact). Although her blogging has been more in the way of political than academic blogging (she’s also blogged at Washington Monthly), her academic interests and training clearly affect the way she views Read more