It’s hard to believe it, but in a little over a month, we’re going to be celebrating the first birthday of this blog! It’s been a great year so far. And I have a series of exciting announcements to make over the next week or so about the future. Stay tuned.

For now, I’m extremely happy to announce that two more individuals have joined the ranks of full-time bloggers here at BHL!

Some of you may have already noticed that Steve Horwitz has moved up the ranks from guest blogger to full contributor here. In his short time on board, Steve’s already written some terrific stuff for us, including this, which is currently the all-time highest viewed post on the site, and one I’m very glad I asked him to write!

Our other new blogger is one I’ve been trying to draft since before he earned his PhD and went “pro” last year. Kevin Vallier is a fellow alum of the University of Arizona’s philosophy program, is currently a Post-Doctoral Research at Brown University’s Political Theory Project while he is on-leave from his real full-time job as an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Bowling Green State University. He’s published articles appearing in journals including Utilitas, The Journal of Moral Philosophy, Philosophical Studies, Public Affairs Quarterly, Philosophy and Social Criticism and The Australasian Journal of Philosophy. Kevin has research interests in political philosophy, political economy, normative ethics and philosophy of religion. He’s presently writing a book manuscript on the proper place of religious commitment in liberal politics tentatively titled Beyond Separation: Uniting Liberal Politics and Public Faith.

Welcome Steve and Kevin!