Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(QC RSS) Word Of The Day
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(Policy of Truth) This Be the Hearse
David French on the “legal and moral justifications for war” against Iran: There is little question that we have many legal and moral justifications for war. When Trump spoke about Americans killed by Iranian-backed militias in Iraq, that struck home for me. We lost men in my own unit to Iranian-backed militias using Iranian-supplied munitions.…
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(The GiveWell Blog) GiveWell Launches RFIs for Targeted Vaccination Outreach in Three Countries and Anemia Control Programs in Africa
GiveWell is launching two new requests for information (RFI) to expand GiveWell’s funding for vaccination outreach and anemia control programs. We’re excited to replicate the success of last year’s water chlorination RFI and explore how to reach even more people in low- and middle-income countries with programs to save and improve lives. The first RFI…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Mud Mountain TRIUMPH
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! Crock, 3/2/26 The comic strip Crock and I have long-running and mutual antagonism, so I am generally reticent…
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(QC RSS) Hum And Buzz
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(QC RSS v2) Hum And Buzz
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(QC RSS v2) Hum And Buzz
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Institutional Neutrality and the Problem of the Faculty Administrator by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Roderick T. Long. That’s true, but what I had in mind was the conception of justice as doing your own work and not meddling in the business of others (433a-c). The rulers rule, the auxiliaries defend, the producers produce. But yes, t…
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