Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Kevin Vallier on “Cancel Culture” by mlyoung57
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. I like thinking of this in terms of adversarial politics (and how this can be a necessary, good thing if done well and for the right causes). Canceling would be a particular move in this — and a move that can be inappro…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Kevin Vallier on “Cancel Culture” by mlyoung57
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Yes, Op-Ed not a news story. As indicated in a general way, what I object to are many of the framing assumptions about what collective or institutional social oppression is and how it works, how intense it is, who (which grou…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Kevin Vallier on “Cancel Culture” by mlyoung57
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. What I was getting at (perhaps a bit inaccurately) with ‘lobbying’ was more like standing up, to Disney, for my values. And signing on to any efforts to change copyright law in relevant ways. Perhaps there would b…
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(Austro-Athenian Empire) Mack the Knife
In my latest YouTube video, I chat with philosopher Eric Mack about walking out on Ayn Rand, clashing with Nazi Sikhs in Seneca Falls, libertarian rights theory, Kantian vs. Aristotelean approaches to fixing Randian ethics, Nozickian polymathy, the unselfishness of Samuel Johnson, the ethics of COVID lockdowns, physical distancing in Durango, the CIA as an…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on What’s Wrong with “Cancel Culture,” Again? “A Case Study” by Nightcap | Notes On Liberty
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(Our World in Data) Help us improve Our World in Data
This is a syndicated post, originally published by Ernst van Woerden at Our World in Data.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on The Following Citations Comprise Our Sermon by Irfan Khawaja
Roderick, have you seen this? https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/ayn-rand-atlas-shrugged-sam-leith/ LikeLike
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(Policy of Truth) What’s Wrong with “Cancel Culture,” Again? “A Case Study”
“Case study” is a bit grand for what follows, but this post was originally a comment I wrote a few days ago on an article in The New York Times. It was buried in the comments of the discussion about Kevin Vallier’s views on cancel culture, but I thought I’d pluck it out and post…
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(Radical Classical Liberals) Some more thoughts on education
Andrew Jason Cohen’s most recent post on education stimulated me to think a little bit more about some of the challenges associated with how we educate children. We are a reluctant public-schooling family. Ideally we’d homeschool, but for a variety of complicated and personal reasons we are, for the moment at least, sending our two…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on “The Emperor, It Is Said, Has Sent You a Message” by Irfan Khawaja
Blank out. LikeLike
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