In this interview we spoke to Crispin Sartwell about what he terms the 'Personal Turn' of philosophy, his experience studying under Richard Rorty, and the Analytic/Continental divide, the future of the philosophical academies with the in-coming Trump term for the USA, and much more. Crispin Sartwell is an American academic, philosopher, and journalist who was a faculty member of the philosophy department at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania until he retired in 2023.