Career[edit]
For ten years Holt hosted a weekly radio spot on BBC Wales, "Living in America, with Jim Holt". He has appeared on William F. Buckley's Firing Line, NBC News with Tom Brokaw, CNN, and had a brief appearance in an episode of Billy on the Street in which he ended an impromptu interview after his interlocutor insisted he reveal his sexuality.
2012 named his book, Why Does the World Exist? as one of the best books of 2012.
The Philosophers Magazine
New York: W.W. Norton, 2008. ISBN 9780393066739, OCLC 181139422
Stop Me If You've Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2018. ISBN 9780374146702, OCLC 1033594308
When Einstein Walked With Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought
Books of the Times – Into the Nothing, After Something
The New York Review of Books – What Can You Really Know?
Holt's review of The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity in The New York Review of Books
"The Power of Catastrophic Thinking"
Philosopher Jim Holt on Nothingness, the God Wars, and His New Book: “I’m a Little Unhinged”
Has the Meaning of Nothing Changed?
The Philosophers Magazine – The best books of 2012
. Scientific American Blog Network.
"Why Does Jim Holt Exist?"
Charlie Rose, January 8, 2012