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Editorial

Now We Are Ten!

by Rick Lewis

This issue, Philosophy Now celebrates its 10th birthday. The magazine was born in the spare bedroom of a house in Ipswich, England, in June 1991. The first issue had a print run of only 2,000 copies and was sold from just a handful of bookshops in Britain, plus half a dozen newsagents to which I delivered it myself in a clapped-out orange Landrover. Optimistic friends thought the magazine would probably last about three issues, so it has so far outlived their predictions by a factor of ten (and the predictions of the pessimists by a factor of 32). In the first few years the mag teetered on the brink of extinction for so long that we were starting to enjoy the view.

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