Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Reparations Revisited by Bloomberg on “Stop and Frisk”: Part 2 of 2 | Policy of Truth
[…] seems coherent, and seems a legitimate reason to vote against Bloomberg. I made a case for the reparative approach against Bloomberg here a few months […] LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Bloomberg on “Stop and Frisk” (Part 1 of 2) by Bloomberg on “Stop and Frisk”: Part 2 of 2 | Policy of Truth
[…] my last post on this topic, I distinguished between two different senses of “stop and frisk,” ordinary and […] LikeLike
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(Policy of Truth) Bloomberg on “Stop and Frisk”: Part 2 of 2
I wrote this post back when Michael Bloomberg was still a presidential candidate. He dropped out of the presidential race on March 4. Soon after that, the pandemic struck. Consumed in the latter issue, I forgot that I’d written the second half of my “Bloomberg on Stop and Frisk” series. In some ways it’s dated,…
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(John McWhorter | The Atlantic) Trader Joe’s Knows That Petitions Aren’t Commandments
The company decided not to rebrand its Trader Giotto and Trader José product lines.
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(QC RSS) Everything Was Different
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(Pixie Trix Comix) Pixie Trix Comix – Not off the hook
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(QC RSS) Connect Four
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Via Dolorosa: Christianity and Anarchism by radgeekdotcom
… anarchist Christians would likely have been wiped out, or turned into a tiny, inconsequential minority Well, maybe. I’m not all that sure it’s wrong, but I’m not all that sure it’s right, either. It seems to me that the …
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(Austro-Athenian Empire) Primitive Accumulation of Pretzels
In my latest YouTube video, I discuss the distinction between markets and capitalism as drawn in the 1919 textbook THE ABC OF COMMUNISM (written by two Soviet apparatchiks, Nikolai Bukharin and Yevgeny Preobrazhensky), as well as in the Marxist tradition generally, with attention to how Marxism twists itself into a pretzel to avoid endorsing free-market…
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(Policy of Truth) COVID-19 Narratives #9: From Nebraska to New Jersey and Back
From Nebraska to New Jersey and Back: College Life Under Pandemic Catherine Lentsch The COVID-19 pandemic first became a reality for me when I was flying back from my home state of Nebraska to New Jersey after spring break. I was chatting with members of the Columbia University baseball team on our plane when they…
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