Costica Bradatan is professor of humanities in the Honors College at Texas Tech University, and an honorary research professor of philosophy at the University of Queensland in Australia. He is the author of, most recently, In Praise of Failure: Four Lessons in Humility (2023). Bradatan is the philosophy/religion editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books and the founding editor and curator of two book series: Philosophical Filmmakers (Bloomsbury) and No Limits (Columbia University Press).