There has been talk in our culture recently about the role of the critic, and this is an important conversation. There was an article recently in the New York Review of Books by Merve Emre, the author, academic, and literary critic, about the role of the critic, and on Twitter we find debates about the merits of Marvel movies versus Scorcese flicks. These are important conversations, because a critic helps us think, and thinking is the antidote to banality, which Hannah Arendt argued is the definition of evil. Because criticism is therefore both a moral and aesthetic act involving thinking, critics like to think about thinking. But this raises the question - what is the difference, then, between critics and philosophers, between Harold Bloom and Aristotle? For more on this matter, listen in...