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2 years

Trust the social science.

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The new generation, I hope.

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I'm not a climate-change expert. Yet I'm an intelligent man who's read the news for about 40 years. I've seen this headline in various publications about once a week—i.e., about 2000 times. So a q: How should a layperson process constant doomsday claims that don't materialize?

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Well said.

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"Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book." - Cicero (circa 40 BCE)

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Where slavery abolished in the modern world, from first to latest.

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On the constant doom-saying Earlier I asked this question: How should a layperson process constant doomsday claims that don't materialize? I'm not a climate-change expert. Yet I'm an intelligent man who's read the news for about 40 years. I've seen ...

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Well made.

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What a university should be.

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Announcement: I'm happy to be joining the faculty of the new Peterson Academy, launching November 2023. I'll be teaching two courses: Modern Philosophy and Postmodern Philosophy. Details forthcoming.

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Is it just my browser, or is Google Search on to something?

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Thomas Sowell is a fine scholar, and I have learned from him. This tweet inexcusable anti-intellectualism:

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2 years

Ha. More correlation-versus-causation wit.

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Calendar count-down: In less than six months, Britain will be like Siberia. I saw it in the news.

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In Buenos Aires yesterday evening, just before Maria Marty's extended interview with President Javier Milei. Will post link to the interview soon.

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Camille Paglia interviewed by Claire Lehmann: “The silence of the academic establishment about the corruption of Western universities by postmodernism and post-structuralism has been an absolute disgrace."

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When healthcare is private, you make cost calculations for your own life. When a government runs healthcare, it will make this calculation.

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I love stories like this:

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Claim: Mike Rowe did more to raise esteem for workers than Karl Marx ever did.

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The timeless relevance of the Greek myths.

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The original title of *The Communist Manifesto* was *Confession of Faith*. Engels suggested the title change just before publication.

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Norway in the late 1800s: Women doing laundry through a hole in the ice. Painting by Jahn Ekenæs, 1891. Before capitalism and technology destroyed the beautiful simplicity of indigenous life. 😎

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In Miami and in studio recording my course on Modern Philosophy. We did Hume and Kant lectures yesterday. Today Hegel and Nietzsche.

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Question: When did Marxist communism come to Cambodia?

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I wonder if they have a plan in mind for eliminating greenhouse gas emissions.

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Deep thought of the day: “We’ve all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.” (Robert Silensky)

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As @peterboghossian says: "Good riddance to this toxicity. If only you had listened those of us who called this out, you would have saved billions & spared countless people from needless strife & division."

The Rise and Fall of the Chief Diversity Officer

“Everything is a battle.” Diversity executives hit the exits as company priorities shift.

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Hard truth from Kierkegaard.

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Consider what primitive societies did with their handicapped. Consider what collectivist governments did and do with their handicapped. Now consider what Enlightenment science and liberalism have done for the handicapped.

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Should We Apologize for the Past? Note that blame and credit are two sides of the evaluative coin.

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This is objectively funny.

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Oregon voted to legalize cocaine. But straws are still illegal. Must be frustrating.

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Postmodern bookcase.

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More academics behaving badly. Wayne State University professor: "I think it is far more admirable to kill a racist, homophobic, or transphobic speaker than it is to shout them down".

Wayne State suspends professor over social media post allegedly advocating violence

The professor, whose identity was not revealed, works in the university's English department.

www.freep.com

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Basic economics: Hoaxes happen when the demand for hate crimes is greater than the supply.

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Headline for the ages.

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One's idealistic impulses can easily be perverted by skilled strategists. Eternal vigilance, and learn from history.

Nietzsche and the Nazis by Stephen R. C. Hicks (Full Audiobook)

*****See timestamps below for easy browsing***** This audiobook edition of Nietzsche and the Nazis is read by the author, Dr. Stephen Hicks.To listen to mo...

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Michael O'Fallon - Sovereign Nations

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“It is important to emphasize that the Nazis put their program forward forthrightly and as a noble—even spiritual—ideal to achieve. They promised not merely another political platform, but a whole philosophy of life that, as they and their followers believed, promised renewal.”…

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Moral progress indicator: Western Europe has been at peace for 78 years. Has that ever happened before in its long history?

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Socialists of the *communist* variant desperately want to separate themselves from socialists of the *fascist* type. Yet, even those on the Left, e.g., Orwell and Du Bois (chart below), saw the obvious similarities:

Phil Magness

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Another relevant observation from roughly the same period...

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Has this insight changed much in 2400 years?

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The COVID outbreak of authoritarianism makes its way into art history.

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Good letter from U of Chicago to incoming students: 'Our commitment to academic freedom means that we do not support so-called “trigger warnings, we do not cancel invited speakers ... and we do not condone the creation of intellectual “safe spaces” ...'

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This is what a real step toward ethnic cleansing looks like. Strategically, DEI is an ideological poison-pill in service of revenge racism.

End Wokeness

@EndWokeness

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John Hopkins just sent out this hit list of people automatically guilty of "privilege" whether they know it or not: -Males -Whites -Christians -Mid-aged people -Able-bodied people -Middle & owning class -English-speaking people This message was emailed directly to employees…

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Add this from CRT co-founder Richard Delgado: “Unlike traditional civil rights, critical race theory questions the very foundations of the liberal order, including equality theory, legal reasoning, Enlightenment rationalism, and neutral principles of constitutional law.”

James Lindsay, full varsity

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Five ugly truths about Critical Race Theory. Yes, it's racist. Yes, it says all white people are racist. No, it doesn't continue the Civil Rights Movement. Yeah, it's Marxian (not specifically Marxist). No, it isn't an "analytical tool."

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I remember. And I remember they filled kids' skateboard parks with dump-truck loads of sand, arrested people for swimming in the ocean, and encouraged people to snitch on neighbors who went outside for too long.

Dr. Eli David

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Remember when they tried to defeat a respiratory virus by preventing people from exercising outdoors?

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This mindset. From a New York politician, but common among intellectuals. It straw-mans and ignores coercion: * Capitalism has many plans—made by individuals, businesses, etc. Socialism has one plan. * Capitalism lets you *choose* your plan. Socialism *forces* all into The Plan.

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Who are the tattle-tales in higher education? Survey by sex, erotic orientation, race, college major, political views. (Though again, please stop calling the illiberal 'liberals'.)

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Our pomo-Woke epistemological sewer in one capture: 1. Chant monomaniacally to make your point. 2. Claim subjectivism and relativism as universally valid. 3. Play the race card and call the other guy a fascist. A pathetic three-way race to the cognitive bottom.

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Ha ha. Yet capitalism *does* breed innovation. Though it doesn't *only* breed innovation — it also provides uniform commodities that consumers consistently want.

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Source: Engels in a letter to Marx, November 24, 1847: “Give a little thought to the Confession of Faith. I think we would do best to abandon the catechetical form and call the thing Communist Manifesto.”

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The original title of *The Communist Manifesto* was *Confession of Faith*. Engels suggested the title change just before publication.

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If a man wearing makeup to look like a member of another race is racist, then is a man wearing makeup to look like a woman sexist? Help me parse this out. My wokeness detector needs a tune-up.

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Philosophy professor Daniel Bonevac, whose ethics textbook I've used in my class for years, testifying about DEI as "Postmodern Manicheanism," as false, and as destructive of social capital.

Dorian Schuyler Abbot

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"Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. These offices aren’t what they purport to be. They’re radical political organizations indoctrinating students and training activists. They act as the campus thought police." Testimony by Daniel Bonevac

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In Stockholm, and happily in possession of the Swedish translation of *Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault*.

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A former cult member shares the inside psychology.

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English ftw.

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Statistically truthy.

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Worth considering.

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America Decides To Cancel Election And Just Draft That Argentinian Guy For President

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Every censor in history says this. "The common good" is a magic wand for them. What we actually share in common is the need to think for ourselves freely, to express ourselves freely, and to agree or disagree freely.

Chief Nerd

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Ireland’s Green Party Sen. Pauline O'Reilly: “We are restricting freedom but we’re doing it for the common good…Yes you have rights, but they are restricted for the common good.”

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Shocking.

Anti WEF

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🔴 "In Russia last year 400 people were arrested for what they said on social media" "How many people do you think were arrested in Britain?"

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Reminder that the title of *Communist Manifesto* was *Confession of Faith* before Engels wised up. Letter to Marx in late 1847: “Give a little thought to the Confession of Faith. I think we would do best to abandon the catechetical form and call the thing Communist Manifesto.”

New Discourses

@NewDiscourses

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Marxism is a theology, and its religion is Communism. That we have failed to understand this fact over the 175 years since The Communist Manifesto was written is one of the most damaging analytical errors in human history." - @ConceptualJames

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From a year ago but somehow still on point.

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* Mona Lisa is owned by the French government. * Louvre Museum is owned by the government. * Museum's operating costs are paid for by government, using French taxpayers' money. Methinks "capitalism" is the wrong label here.

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Hello Capitalism, my old friend.

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Wokists are not mis-guided idealists; they are low-grade sadists. Healthy people know how to handle injustices civilly.

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Wokism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, might be normal.

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Indeed, Dr. Peterson. (Though I receive a lighter load of it than you do.) Still surprises me sometimes how hateful the supposed anti-hate activists can be and how resistant many supposed intellectuals are to attempts at clarity to sort out our differences.

Dr Jordan B Peterson

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Dr Hicks is a clear thinker and expositor and is roundly hated by the progressives for precisely this reason.

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Imagine losing money in the weed business. And they even have a monopoly. (I'm sure there's a surprising lesson in there somewhere about private-versus-public efficiency.)

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Contrast: At Tiananmen Square, the tank *stopped* and did *not* crash into the protester. #RCMP #Ottawaprotests

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Unusually clear statement of the materialist version of the labor theory of value: Only obviously physical labor counts as "hard work." Learning math and science and engineering and logic and entrepreneurial risk-taking and thinking about big unsolved problems do not, according…

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Dinosaur math.

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She had puberty blockers at 12, testosterone at 13, a double mastectomy at 15, and de-transitioned at 18. Isn't this woman a 'minority'? Isn't she adding 'diversity'? Wouldn't 'silencing' her be 'oppressing' women? Maybe those words don't mean what I think they mean?

Wokal Distance

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Professors at the University of Utah cancelled classes while the women's center held a healing circle because this woman gave a speech on campus.

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Arendt, on why politics depends upon philosophy, specifically epistemology:

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For parents and educators: a useful tracker resource of CRT and DEI in the schools. What's happening in your city and state?

Critical Race Training in Education

A resource for parents and students who want to learn more about the use of Critical Race Theory in over 200 U.S. colleges and universities.

criticalrace.org

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Christmas in Argentina. I received this doubly significant bottle: a Malbec from the Mendoza region, and with an in-the-know private label. Tasting this evening.

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Thanks much, Konstantin. A shot in the arm and a pleasure to remember.

Konstantin Kisin

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3 people you may not have heard of who have hugely valuable insights: @SRCHicks - both his episodes on TRIGGERnometry are incredible. @jtworr - our upcoming episode with him is 🔥 @freyaindiaa - brilliant writer on Gen Z, social media and girls' mental health. Episode soon.

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Thank you, Dr. Peterson ( @jordanbpeterson ). Honored.

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Congratulations @SRCHicks spreading precise analysis of the postmodernist disaster here there and everywhere.

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Yes. One implication is that if one genuinely cares about the poor then one wants much more energy production.

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Energy = life.

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Good question. My hypothesis: It's a modern variant on the Philosopher-King complex: Philosophers believe/know they're smarter than everyone else so they should be in charge, and they believe most people are ignorant/incompetent and so need to be directed. Socialism is a…

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Aaannnd ... *Atlas Shrugged* becomes a documentary. Yet again.

Dr Jordan B Peterson

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And apparently although utterly unbelievably true How do tyrants deal with failure? By making it illegal to fail. I'm left aghast every day... And I mean left. Where is John Galt? Because we certainly have Elsworth Toohey.

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In Paris today, hanging with Jean-Jacques Rousseau who, appropriately has a pigeon pooping on his head.

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The Modern Philosophy course: Bacon, Descartes, Locke, Voltaire, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Mill, and Nietzsche, with others featured along the way. Publishing soon.

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In Miami and in studio recording my course on Modern Philosophy. We did Hume and Kant lectures yesterday. Today Hegel and Nietzsche.

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Pol Pot's Cambodia and Pinochet's Chile: (Im)Morally Equivalent? 1. A short follow-up on moral equivalencing. Yesterday I posted this about the killing fields in Cambodia under Marxist communism. Immediately I got huffy responses like “But what about ...

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Who says postmodernism isn't practical?

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Ha. Good one.

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Pathetic. I recommend that you buy and read Pluckrose and Linday's 2020 book. I'm 25% into it and enjoying.

Harvard club cancels event set to feature expert … on cancel culture | The College Fix

‘Because someone was upset that I exist.’…

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The postmodernist Stanley Fish exulted that deconstruction “relieves me of the obligation to be right … and demands only that I be interesting.” (Source in first comment.) Fish became a guru to the Critical Legal Studies movement, to clear effect.

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A reality-psychology paradox: The more we lessen *actual* risk-levels, the more we're frightened of *perceived* risk-levels. We are much safer but seem more scared.

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On force, coercion, compulsion, and other close synonyms:

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Frankly, it should be MUCH bigger than this.

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Signs of the times: "social justice" zero-sum thinking means anti-success, anti-win, anti-ambition aggressiveness. Poster at a university.

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Interview in Sweden now published. Hosts Hanif Bali and Per Lindgren invited me on their popular show. Smart guys with smart questions and observations.

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When Covid forced Sisyphus to work from home.

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Canadian friends: I'm happy to announce that I'll be returning to my native land to give an invited lecture at Queen's University in Kingston on September 15. More info forthcoming.

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Fair point @TheAliceSmith .

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Question: What do you get when you cross the Godfather with a postmodernist? Answer: An offer you can’t understand.

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Life expectancy at birth over the last 50,000 years.

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A Century of War. Why? Philosophy's causal role in World I, World War II, the Cold War, the Korean War, the Vietnam War. Over 100 million people killed: Philosophy matters practically. My 20-minute explanation.

A Century of War. Why?

The twentieth century was a violent century. World War I, World War II, the Cold War, the Korean War and the Vietnam War involved multiple combatants and Dr...

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What we've learned: “It’s only plagiarism if it comes from the Plagiare region of France. Otherwise it’s sparkling academic corruption.” (Ilya Shapiro)

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Captures part of Arendt's "banality of evil" theme: policy makers as gossipy me-too! controllers and destroyers of lives.

Michael P Senger

@michaelpsenger

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New CDC Director Mandy Cohen recalls how she and her colleagues came up with COVID mandates during her time as NC Health Director. “She was like, are you gonna let them have professional football? And I was like, no. And she’s like, OK neither are we.”