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IrishPhilosophy

IrishPhilosophy

Blogpost started but not finished on Francis Hutcheson, who 300 years ago may well have been celebrating his 26th birthday in Dublin as he set up his school. So a

Tom de Guerre

threecatpileup

I have been waiting for Nov. 5th to make this post. A thread about the movie "V for Vendetta" and my 2020 revelations--losing friends and losing faith in my longtime

T. Greer

Scholars_Stage

one of the biggest problems with Americans who possess great privilege is their mysterious sense of powerlessness. Failure to take responsibility--to admit that one does indeed have responsibility--is the great

𝚂𝚌𝚘𝚝𝚝 𝚆𝚒𝚗𝚜𝚑𝚒𝚙

swinshi

The reason that antipoverty policy is (or should be) harder than "just give people money" is that we *all* think there are some behavioral effects. You can't argue that child

Curtis Cummings

curtisjcummings

I don't look at resumes when interviewing.I don't care what school you went to and I probably won't visit your LinkedIn.Give me a cover letter or, better yet, a microsite

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golikehellmachi

as someone who has organized speaking engagements for large companies, including being part of the negotiations over the price, i will say with a high degree of confidence that most

Philip Gorski

GorskiPhilip

1/ Further thoughts on @DavidAFrench's important essay on #ChristianNationalism. It's great to see a leading evangelical thinker publicly engaging the topic.But.... 2/ It would be even better if @DavidAFrench would

Bright Wall/Dark Room

BWDR

Our February issue, focusing on music & movies, kicks off tomorrow with Ethan Warren on Gene Kelly & brand new artwork from @studiotstella! “I Like Myself” - Gene

John Altmann ♿

Iron_Intellect

So @non_philosophy being the beautiful person they are, looked over my essay arguing that Socrates 1.) Had epilepsy and 2.) His epilepsy birthed the Socratic Method (You could say his

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

OlufemiOTaiwo

actually let me just get this out of the way. Overall, the broad points we made (largely ignored in this response) are:1) the racial capitalism argument that racism plays a

Carl Quintanilla

carlquintanilla

1. A quick thread on “Silence of the Lambs” — which had its NY premiere on this date in 1991. One of the great character entrances of all time, except

ScoonTV

ScoonTv

The seeds for a race war are bein sewn by various subversive groups in this country. Going back 100 years communists were trying to recruit Black peoplehttps://solidarity-us.org/atc/84/p928/ The mistreatment of

Mike Konczal

rortybomb

NYTimes has a 50y retrospective on Milton Friedman's popularizing of shareholder primacy, “The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits,” with line-by-line commentary from smart folks.I discuss the

Revolving Door Project

revolvingdoorDC

NEW: A must-read essay by @petermshane on the many executive tools that President-elect Joe Biden can and must use to bypass Mitch McConnell and rebuild America after four years of

Dr Cara Tremain

DrCaraTremain

How to craft a 1/2 million dollar narrative courtesy of Christie's: 1) Push provenance prior to 1938...2) Link to famous artist Matisse & buddies...3) Cite article from Journal of Archaeological

John Ma

Nakhthor

More thoughts on Millar, Emperor in the Roman World (1977). THREAD Hopkins' review (rehashed in a recent essay in the TLS) wished for another book, of "new" social history. Millar's

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