#Contemporary

Luboš Motl

lumidek

Leftists are truly progressive these days. Near Dortmund, they unvealed a statue of... Lenin. All of us are millionaires because our cesspools are full of this shit and we can

The Pseudonymus Ergopraxis

ergo_praxis

Friendly suggestion to contemporary philosophers. If you want to produce worthwhile work stop being nitpicky morons and try to tackle the overarching, systematic issues. You are not going to find

Matt Glassman

MattGlassman312

A funny thing about essentially unprecedented situations: *somehow* this decision got made, we may or may not ever know how or by who, and in 100 years from this will

Erin Ekins (she/her)

QueerlyAutistic

Honestly, I never even watched Game of Thrones, but I could happily read a thousands books analysing how quickly it just fucking vanished from the cultural zeitgeist after being such

James Croft

CroftSpeaks

One of the really sad things about the existence of IDW folks and the rest of the anti-woke brigade is that they actually make legitimate criticisms of the theories and

Stefano Palminteri

StePalminteri

I believe that one of the reasons of this difference in perception between scientists and philosophers boils down to the fact that scientists usually dive into philosophy of science in

Stephen Dziedzic

stephendziedzic

Jaishankar is quite dismissive. He argues some Western liberals are uncomfortable with contemporary India simply because they have not grappled with the way it has democratised. Its political leaders are

Ashley King

AKpsychoalchemy

In the rush to combat the crazies who think that personal feelings and wholesale subjectivity should rule the day, the empiricists are pushing back...and for good reason. But the allegiance

Thomas Horrocks

thomaslhorrocks

Who's ready for a nerdy thread on biblical exegesis, hermeneutics, and preaching? This is going to be a bit stream of consciousness and may take a while. I'm thinking as

Christopher Hohman

HohmanLuke

1. Good Afternoon to all members of the #phstmu Twitter page. I hope that everyone is enjoying their spooky Halloween Saturday and staying safe from those vampires, werewolves, and fearsome

Wilfred Reilly

wil_da_beast630

I bash 'wokeness' b/c so much of it DIRECTLY interferes with actually helping people. If bad study habits cause low test scores for urban and especially Black kids, telling them

elizabeth bruenig

ebruenig

watched the film "Cuties"...certainly understand that it's been explained as a kind of cautionary tale about the sexualization of children, but nothing about the film reads as disapproving or critical.

Sharrona WEAR A MASK Pearl

Sharronapearl

In order to provide a careful critique of a book's arguments and claims, one needs to read it. Absolutely. One can, however, absolutely take a clear and principled stand against

Clint Smith

ClintSmithIII

The best teachers I know teach their students to critically interrogate *every* text they read. They teach both Morrison & Shakespeare. Baldwin & Frost. Contemporary YA & 19th century novels.

Emil Sandstedt

bezantdenier

1.) The fourth chapter of 'Money Dethroned - A Journey through Ashes', deals with the British Restriction of 1797 - a much more interesting episode than its boring name would

Wilfred Reilly

wil_da_beast630

The idea of "systemic racism," as the term is commonly used, basically means: "any system within which Blacks/POC do badly is racist." The problem with this idea is that such

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