Asma, Stephen T. "Looking Up From the Gutter: Philosophy and Popular Culture." CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION October 12, 2007

In 2001, Open Court published The Simpsons and Philosophy. I think I received six or seven copies for Christmas that year. Other philosophy professors I know (and there aren't many, since we're all loners) received a similar glut of "the Simpsons book." Friends and relatives, who had long struggled to have any way of relating to my field of expertise, finally had some gesture of bonding. . . . http://chronicle.com/temp/reprint.php?id=mlhxjx9y84d00ct2jxthph91zm9dcdtz