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Steven Levine

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11 months

@kwazana That is quite the reading of the film

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There is a deep tension between activism and scholarship. Scholarship requires a certain level of skepticism and humility, while activism requires a certain level of certainty and self-assurance.

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Another example that supports my long held belief that philosophy should just be for the philosophers. No public philosophy!

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1) The first line of my University's proposed mission is "to becoming an anti-racist and health-promoting institution." Not as side effects of our mission to pursue research and teach students, but as the mission itself.

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Peak Boston moment: in line in a Dorchester Duncan Donuts, guy comes in and on the phone says ‘yeah you stole a gun and some coke from me, but that was 20 years ago’. Then orders a coffee with 5 creams and 9 sugars.

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4) We will, I think, deeply regret the social instrumentalization of the University. Many faculty think they are forwarding justice and pluralism by supporting this mission, when what they are really advancing is administrative and intellectual centralization.

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Hegel in two lines: To be related to an other, one must be in a self-related relation to the other. To be related to oneself, one's must be in an other-related relation to oneself. Bam!

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Steven Levine

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@jasonintrator This is not your best tweet Jason. There are plenty of folks with 5 books, etc. who use these terms as terms of abuse. Authority by itself does not settle this matter, as is usually the case with contested moral and political terms. Phronesis is not expertise.

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Steven Levine

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My thesis advisor Richard J. Bernstein died yesterday. The man was many things, but I would say that he was a teacher above all. He trained a generation of New School philosophers and he will be missed sorely by all.

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1. At my school, social justice imperatives were built directly into the mission statement of the school. Not as subsidiary goals of our main goals, teaching and research, but as the primary goals. Most, not all, faculty, well intentioned liberals, cheered or said nothing.

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I'm Karl Marx and I support the Czar because England and France are imperialist powers. Wait....

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3) Those who work on purely theoretical issues in the sciences and elsewhere have been defined out of the mission. According to this passage, they will, in not directly forwarding these values in their work, be held 'accountable' for this.

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My thesis advisor, Richard J. Bernstein, used to say that if you told him a philosopher's view of animals that he could tell you the contours of the rest of their thought. Seems right.

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Steven Levine

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When one reads Heidegger's "Phenomenological Interpretation of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason" there can be no doubt that he is a philosopher of the highest order. We want to think that philosophical insight and wisdom are aligned. But alas, Heidegger shows they are not.

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Steven Levine

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Zizek as militant liberal was not on my bingo card.

We must stop letting Russia define the terms of the Ukraine crisis | Slavoj Žižek

A question like ‘Did US intelligence-sharing with Ukraine cross a line?’ forgets the fact that it was Russia that crossed the line – by invading Ukraine

www.theguardian.com

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Steven Levine

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Hello my old friend…….

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@DavidKlion They destroyed over 60 percent of the buildings in Gaza but not once targeted civilians.

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Steven Levine

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3 years

Until like 10 years ago in philosophy the spectrum of positions taught was between Rawls and Nozick. So the spectrum went from liberalism to liberalism.

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2) The mission also involves the fact that we will—and I quote—"hold ourselves and each other accountable to ensure these values drive all decision-making in research, pedagogical innovations, resource allocation, and the development of policies and practices."

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Steven Levine

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3 years

Writing about Hegel is not easy.

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Steven Levine

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7 months

Hey y’all, my department, the Philosophy Department at the University of Massachusetts, has a job in Continental philosophy. Its a good gig, so please think about applying. Link in the next tweet in the thread.

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Steven Levine

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2 years

McDowell's 'Why does it Matter to Hegel that Geist has a History?' is as good a demolishing of Pippin's view as I have seen. Dude can do philosophy.

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One deeply shitty feature of our culture is the critical sensibility that takes cultural trash with the utmost seriousness, but then subjects it to the most searing moralistic kind of critique.

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Steven Levine

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1 year

Pretty excited to be part of this terrific collection.

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So I'm gathering from this website that Heidegger was a Nazi.

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6. I should add, that in a large public university it is right, proper, and good to have public-facing justice oriented practices and goals. The problem is when they crowd out other vital goals of a university, and when they are instrumentalized to augment administrative power.

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5. This progressive neo-liberal management strategy was completely and totally predictable. It is amazing to watch it unfold in real time with everyone just playing their part, including myself as the person who complains about neo-liberal management strategies on twitter.

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The thing about academia is that there really is a silent majority. Most faculty just want to keep their heads down and get their work done, rather than being politically active, and are ordinarily unhappy rather than hysterically miserable, as one would think from this site.

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The best line of my book is the first line of the acknowledgements: "In writing this book I have racked up many intellectual debts—so many, in fact, that I am no longer responsible for any of my mistakes." I stand by this.

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I am not clear on why calling October 7th an uprising is so controversial. Of course it was. Saying that is in no way inconsistent with also saying that war crimes were committed against civilians. Both are true. The constant moralization of all analysis disables clear thinking

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@jorymicah I would argue that the left position collapses this distinction, and the focus on equity in the US is mostly about intra-elite competition. The concept of equality, rightly understood, included substantive equality, which would often entail giving priority to the disadvantaged.

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Paperback in the house.

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Sometime analytic philosophy is just fucking annoying

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Steven Levine

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3 years

Two kinds of philosophers: the first has everything worked out in their minds and express what they already know in writing as best they can, the second has to figure out what they think in writing, and barely knows what they think even when its down on paper.

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Steven Levine

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2 years

1. I just realized that Dewey's experimentalism can be characterized as straightforwardly universalizing a part of Hegel's philosophy of action. A thread.

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Steven Levine

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Arendt included both fascism and Stalinism in the Origins because both are subject to her Tocquevillian reading of modernity. If you want to reject her argument you can’t just say: communism is different! you have to critique that reading.

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@ZaidJilani For many the answer is yes, they don’t want those issues highlighted.

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2. Now the Provost is attempting to dismantle my college, the College of Liberal Arts, partly by using an argument that separates the departments that are public facing and justice oriented (Econ, Sociology, and Political Science) and the rest that are not—or not as much.

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3. Social justice—the ability of each individual to realize themselves through equally partaking of social goods—is in-itself a good-in-itself. But social justice can and is being instrumentalized. There are the socially useful sciences and those that are not.

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My sense, for what it is worth, is that there is a silent majority made up of not anti-woke, but those who do not wish to be involved on way or the other.

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Steven Levine

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Didn't agree with a lot of his politics, but I have to admit it now that he is gone: Jason Stanley was a damn good poster.

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Steven Levine

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Loving all the 'Pankaj Mishra is a Zionist' takes. All it takes is one moment of subtly and people are rendered unable to think.

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Steven Levine

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3 years

He gets a lot of shit, but when he's right he's right.

Slavoj Žižek: Last Exit to Socialism

Slavoj Žižek writes in Jacobin that today's exploding ecological crises open up a realistic prospect of the final exit of humanity itself. Might socialism be our off-ramp, or is it already too late?

jacobin.com

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Steven Levine

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3 years

@ggreenwald How is this homophobic with the politics switched around? I don't get it?

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Steven Levine

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1 year

Hey people, there is another New Yorker philosophy profile this week, this one on Jane Bennett written by my friend Morgan Meis. Put down the Callard profile and read this one.

The Philosopher Who Believes in Living Things

Jane Bennett argues that the stuff that surrounds us isn’t inert—it has a will of its own.

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@sam_d_1995 @lxeagle17 But Europe has lots of empty land, and does not have a lot of old stuff that needs to be circumnavigated, like in the US.

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Steven Levine

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Yes, its too long, but A Spirit of Trust is an overwhelmingly good book.

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I should also add that those practices and goals should be set by faculty research projects, not a University administration.

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@simon_schama Your guess is simply wrong.

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@ShabazzStuart People reverse cause and effect: building does not cause gentrification, rather when builders build gentrification has already happened, but is not yet fully apparent.

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4. Sorry English, Philosophy, History, Comp Lit, etc. etc. your useless however much you try to make yourself useful. (Yes I know we we teach critical skills that graduates need, that we are widening the canon, and so on and so forth, but you get my point).

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@Tyler_A_Harper why express solidarity when you can engage in privilege discourse

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3 years

Freddie DeBoer taking sense: "You have to be for something before you’re anti-anything. Anti-woke is not a political project. It’s not a philosophy. It’s not a plan. It’s just an emotional reaction."

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Steven Levine

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With respect to Modernity there is the alienation complaint (Hegel, Marx, etc) and the conformity complaint (Tocqueville, Kierkegaard, Mill, etc.) Which complaint do you make?

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The fundamental dishonesty of the situation is that we all know where it is headed, now or later, given the comportment of Likud and those to the right of Likud, ethnic cleansing. We all known it, but it must never be said.

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@chick_in_kiev While there are far right elements in law enforcement, there is little institutional support for a coup by Trump. The military, the federal security services, corporate America, are not looking to keep Trump.

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@daniel_dsj2110 @dbessner His base hates debt forgiveness with a passion.

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@thomaschattwill If you are a faculty member, like myself, and you enter the public square on twitter, your going to be addressed in ways that display no deference. If one can't deal with that, I suggest getting of twitter, which is a leveling medium, for better or worse.

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Steven Levine

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2 years

One trend of the current age is 'leftists' advocating for neo-liberalism, thinking they are advocating for socialism. For them, 'socialism' is supporting the entrepreneurialism of the self, rather than supporting collective structures which makes such entrepreneurialism obsolete.

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Imagine throwing away the chance to be reelected and beat back to most reactionary formation in decades so as to prop up the far-right government of a small client state that is likely committing ethnic cleansing and trying to get the the metropole into a world war.

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@terry_renaud you have got to be fucking kidding me.

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One of John Dewey's deep insights is into the epistemic fragility of individual human beings. In modern societies we must not only inculcate moral virtue but also epistemic virtue. The failure of the latter inculcation in the face of a radically altered social reality is palpable

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Steven Levine

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Getting into a minor pseudo-fight with Jason Stanley has put me over the 500 follower mark. I've made it Ma, I've made it!

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Steven Levine

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4 years

@Sulliedsubjects Two concepts of experience in German, erlebnis and erfahrung. The first: having a stream of conscious experiences, the second: having gone through a learning process (job ad: need a barista with experience). The first German term has been translated 'lived experience'.

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Really wish John Ganz was at the fascism debate at Princeton. The Stanley/Snyder position is just not serious.

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For tenured professors the 'unpaid work' discourse on here is another example of neo-liberal rationality being sold under the aegis of a critique of neo-liberalism. What one is doing is marketizing ones relation to one's students.

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My book Pragmatism Objectivity, and Experience is coming out in paperback in a few days. If you are dying to know how pragmatism and the Pittsburgh school interact then this is the book for you.

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@DomFawkes @SamuelRGalloway @kwazana What we want apparently is high functioning white guy’s

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@davidlmcpherson The conservative keeps Marx's alienation critique and drops his resolute modernism.

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STUDENT PROTEST IS ITSELF A TRADITION. IT WAS CRUSHED NOT BECAUSE IT WAS PROTEST, BUT BECAUSE OF WHAT WAS BEING PROTESTED.

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Re-reading Habermas’s Knowledge and Human Interests. Damn this is a good book.

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The first thing I want to know about a philosopher is: how many followers do you have?

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@bonchieredstate Its not better. But it can be done at the stroke of a pen, unlike any of these others. If you are so worried about the disparate class effects of this we could means test it. In this case many people would be made better of without making anyone else worse off.

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@freganmitts some of the introduction to the philosophy of history and then the master/slave dialectic

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Reading the whole of Horkheimer’s Eclipse of Reason for the first time. Did not realize the extent to which Dewey is the prime target of critique, or the extent to which he is responsive to his American context.

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@mtaibbi I find this so strange: they are doing their thing, they have been given great latitude, but there is a great injustice in their not being listened to? Is your claim that they are getting no air time, that its no story, that its being hidden? But that is absurd.

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@asymmetricinfo If you want scholars to pursue longer term projects you must have tenure. Job insecurity already has resulted in massive overproduction. If you want faculty governance you need tenure. If you want a much more cowed faculty, then getting rid of it is the way.

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What a fucking disgrace

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JUST IN: U.S. House votes 234-188 to censure Rep. Rashida Tlaib over her remarks and actions in response to the Israel-Hamas war. Several Democrats voted with Republicans in support of the measure.

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1. Dewey on the difference between living and non-living things: "The difference between the animate plant and the inanimate iron molecule is not that the former has something in addition to physic-chemical energy; it lies in the way in which physico-chemical energies are

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@alisalerno @chick_in_kiev I think I've wandered into a corner of twitter where I don't know the rules. I've written books and many articles, I don't demand that when I say something that anyone who disagrees with me that they read my books and articles.

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@OsitaNwanevu the gutter press is alive and very well

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Massachusetts politics is like: we’re cool with the gays and we’re not insane, but if you want me to do anything that will even mildly upset a 2 million dollar homeowner in Newton, you can forget it.

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Everyone is now supposed to be accepting and understanding, etc. etc. but then you get a genuine eccentric like Agnes Callard and that seems to all goes out the window.

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@samhaselby Rolled, or is their preferred outcome more donor power vs their DEI opponents? For some no but I think for some definitely yes.

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@samhaselby But Sam he did not fill out a room form properly. Clearly an offense so grave as to suspend him for a semester.

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About to begin a book titled Dewey and the Grounds of Social Critique. Yes he has such a theory and I am going to tell you what it is. You are just going to have to wait a year or two.

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@JoelBurcham I am a professor of philosophy. Most departments in the US are committed to Analytical philosophy, which has nothing to do with critical theory. There are literally only a couple of PH.D granting programs that have facult that do critical theory (post Lukacs critical theory).

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Reading "One Dimensional Man" for the first time since I was 18 (30 years ago for gods sake). Being red-pilled all over again!

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If Rorty had not been dismissed his project would have been a failure. So dismissal was success.

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@Angry_Cassie William James. Truly great as a thinker not just a writer, wrote several classic texts: principles, pragmatism, varieties of religious experience. A giant.

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Daniel Bell in his later years said that he was an economic socialist, a political liberal, and a cultural conservative. I seem to have found my way to this position, though my cultural conservatism is just Modernism.

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@RohanParkes If he is thinking of Hegel and Marx the point is even more ignorant and absurd.

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All I know is this: if you back into a parking spot you're a bad person.

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@realchrisrufo @njhochman Do you think the goal of education is served by coming on this site and mocking students of the institution you are meant to serve? Absolutely incredible.

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To my shame, I have not read Mill's On Liberty since I was a teenager. Reading it again I can say: damn Mill is a good philosopher.

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What if, hear me out, the Israeli’s killed the aid workers on purpose, so aid workers stop delivering food, which forwards the aim of starving the population, and what if the United States was a partner in this project? Boy would that be something.

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This is something I believe: it is only if you have been critical of occupation that you have standing to criticize Hamas’s brutal action. If you have supported occupation you, to however small a degree, aided and abetted it.

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Reading The Last Man Takes LSD. Completely convincing work. Foucault is THE philosopher of the Age of Fracture, and as such, has to be overcome—while assimilating what is true in his thought.

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It lives.

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I wish people would just read Capital. It would make things easier.

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