Benjamin George Coles argues that artistic means should often be incorporated into punishments – and indeed that we would benefit generally from thinking of punishment in more aesthetic terms. He first identifies the various objectives that we standardly have with punishment and argues for the primacy of an educational one. He then describes a series of real-life educational punishments and closes with a discussion of why the notion of punishment art is such a strange one.

"Whatever else the history of philosophy is, it is the history of the tensions between philosophy’s public-facing and scholastic tendencies"

"Home is our anchor point within reality which gives us orientation and allows us to set out in new directions."

"Philosophy, including and perhaps especially, public philosophy, is often best done in dialogue, as Socrates well knew."

"What is it that we defend under the banner of “academic freedom”? At what possible costs?"