Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(Our World in Data) Very little of global food is transported by air; this greatly reduces the climate benefits of eating local
Transporting food by plane can come with a large carbon footprint. But very little of our food travels this way – just 0.16% of food miles are from air travel.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Assuming the Original Position by Roderick T. Long
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Assuming the Original Position by Roderick T. Long
Okay, I just tried his test (which isn’t the same as the Veil of Ignorance anyway, but never mind). If Trump were a Democrat but were otherwise identical … yeah, screw him. Well, maybe that’s not a fair test, since neither Republican…
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(Policy of Truth) Assuming the Original Position
Say what you want about John Rawls, but he doesn’t deserve to be invoked by Alan Dershowitz in defense of Donald Trump–on the floor of the U.S. Senate, no less. And yet here we are. Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. Curious what Trump or Dershowitz…
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(QC RSS) When It Comes Up
I learned via some of my excellent Patreon supporters that some trans folks can experience period symptoms too! Hormones are WILD
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on War with Iran (18): Dialogue of the Deaf by Irfan Khawaja
Pete Buttigieg, proving that military service doesn’t mean that you have any idea what you’re talking about: https://video.foxnews.com/v/6126710525001#sp=show-clips “First we have to take steps to make sure U.S. personnel are safe.…
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(Policy of Truth) War with Iran (18): Dialogue of the Deaf
You’ve probably seen that meme of the couple in bed, where the woman suspects that the guy is thinking of other women, and the guy is lying there thinking about video games or whatever. That meme is a perfect encapsulation of the communicative relationship between Iran and the American people. The Iranians are trying to…
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(Law & Liberty) Senator Sanders, Meet James Madison
In the absence of either public virtue or a decent elite, the logic of Federalist 10 collapses.
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(Law & Liberty) Economic Nationalism Can’t Heal the U.S.
We aren’t going to spend or policy-wonk our way out of decline and anomie in certain segments of our population.
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(Law & Liberty) America, Land of Deformed Institutions
Yuval Levin pinpoints that American alienation and anger emerges from our weak political, social, and religious institutions.
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