Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Walzer on Rules, Crime, and War by John Davenport
And actually there are direct analogies between all the principles of jus ad bellum, in bello, and post-bellum and ethical principles related to law enforcement, criminal justice, restorative justice and reintegration of offenders into society after se…
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(Policy of Truth) The Lesson of LA
A typical discussion of what’s happening right now in LA: It’s hard to avoid the conclusion that the Trump administration is spoiling for a fight on America’s streets. On Saturday, after a protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests degenerated into violence, the administration reacted as if the country were on the brink of war.…
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(Our World in Data) Childhood leukemia: how a deadly cancer became treatable
Before the 1970s, most children affected by leukemia would quickly die from it. Now, most children in rich countries are cured.
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(xkcd.com) Alert Sound
This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Kalven’s Complicit Executioners by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Roderick T. Long. You and I agree that both grassroots activism and electoral politics are both important to political action, but it’s not clear to me that Rothbard agrees with that. At the very least, his claims about electoral politics r…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Kalven’s Complicit Executioners by Roderick T. Long
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. I think you underestimate the successes of the bottom-up non-electoral approach. Yes, the civil rights movement worked for voter registration (and I don’t reject that as a goal at all, it was a worthwhile part of the p…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Kalven’s Complicit Executioners by Irfan Khawaja
My previous comment probably sounds more critical than I want to be. My main criticism is that I agree with the basic thrust of the article, but find the last section, “What Vision of the Future?” totally unconvincing. The diagnosis as a wh…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Kalven’s Complicit Executioners by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Roderick T. Long. I like it. I’d never read that before, but I agree with maybe 95-99% of it. Certainly agree with the basic gist. And yet. I certainly agree with Rothbard that the Social Democratic story exhibits an “almost stu…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Slenderwilbur will haunt your nightmares
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger’s The Enthusiast is that novel! It’s even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Mary Worth, 6/8/25 Many of our most beloved deranged Mary Worth storylines end abruptly, with antagonists just straight…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Kalven’s Complicit Executioners by Roderick T. Long
Rothbard was on the right side of this in 1965, whatever his later deviations: https://www.rothbard.it/articles/liberty-and-new-left.pdf LikeLike
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