Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(Law & Liberty) Restoring the Separation of Powers: A Modest Proposal
The Trump Hotel and congressional subpoenas: some stay to remember, others may stay to regret.
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(Law & Liberty) President Trump and the Forever Wars
Harold Koh calls for elite mobilization against the Trump Administration’s policies on armed conflict, immigration, trade, climate change, & human rights.
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(QC RSS) Highbrow Conversation
This is a syndicated post, originally published by QC RSS at QC RSS.
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(Austro-Athenian Empire) Is He Strong? Listen, Bud
In the Silver Age, radiation was a common way for superheroes to get their powers, particularly in the case of such early Marvel creations as Spider-Man, the Hulk, Daredevil, the Fantastic Four, and (in some accounts) the X-Men. It makes sense: atomic power, both as a fearsome weapon and as a potential energy source, was…
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(Policy of Truth) War with Iran (17): Fool in the Rain
Last night, I wrote this paean to Code Pink, in anticipation of an anti-war demonstration that was supposed to take place today at noon in Hinds Plaza in Princeton, New Jersey. I regard Medea Benjamin, the founder of Code Pink, as one of the great heroes of the twenty-first century. Code Pink’s opposition to our…
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(Policy of Truth) Auschwitz: Some Reminders
This Monday, January 27, marks the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. We’re constantly being enjoined “never to forget” the significance of this day. Just to remind you of what actually happened on January 27, 1945: the Red Army defeated the Wehrmacht, wresting Auschwitz from the Nazis, liberating its inmates in one sense, and “liberating”…
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(Law & Liberty) Greta Gerwig and the Art of Return
Gerwig’s characters are real, human girls who must wrestle with the tension between their ambitions and their givenness, their futures and their pasts.
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(Law & Liberty) Mystic Timber
As an epic vision of reality, Karl Marlantes’s Deep River takes up the enduring cultural theme of primitivism.
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(Our World in Data) You want to reduce the carbon footprint of your food? Focus on what you eat, not whether your food is local
‘Eat local’ is a common recommendation to reduce the carbon footprint of your diet. But transport tends to account for a small share of greenhouse gas emissions. How does the impact of what you eat compare to where it’s come from?
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