Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(QC RSS) Nature’s Fidget Spinner
THE MELON SYSTEM
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(Policy of Truth) War with Iran (15): From the Annals of American Military Invincibility
So this isn’t a story specifically about Iran, but close enough: WASHINGTON — Armed with rifles and explosives, about a dozen Shabab fighters destroyed an American surveillance plane as it was taking off and ignited an hours long gunfight earlier this month on a sprawling military base in Kenya that houses United States troops. By…
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(Policy of Truth) Colleagues, Tramps, and Thieves
A colleague of mine went to India over Christmas break, and gifted me a box of Indian sweets–laddu, barfi, and the like. I gluttonously consumed two-thirds of the box a few minutes after receiving the gift. I then put the box in the fridge of our faculty lounge, thinking I’d eat the rest the next…
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(Law & Liberty) Economic Nationalism as Political Realism
No market exists in a social vacuum, and hardly any market exists in a political vacuum.
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(Law & Liberty) Ken Kersch’s Conservatives and the Constitution: A Law & Liberty Symposium
Kersch’s book recounts the debates that helped shape the narrative of conservative constitutionalism.
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(Law & Liberty) A Learned but Dismissive Take on Conservative Constitutionalism
It is disheartening to realize that the academic Left can’t conceive of conservative constitutionalism as reasonable or intellectually defensible.
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(Law & Liberty) Originalists Were Always for (Some) Judicial Engagement
The tendency toward a firm enforcement of the Constitution’s structural provisions was built into conservative constitutionalism from the beginning.
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(Law & Liberty) Conservative Constitutionalism beyond Originalism
Ken Kersch draws on capacious understandings of the Constitution that are not well known outside of what became the Christian right.
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(Law & Liberty) Mapping the Terrain of Conservative Constitutionalism
The cause of the Founders has been hitched to those strains of conservatism that have long been aching for a twilight struggle and a Holy War.
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(Austro-Athenian Empire) Leonard Cohen Month, ADDENDUM (1 of 2): Songs 61-62
When I featured “Leonard Cohen Month” last June, Cohen’s final posthumous album, Thanks for the Dance, hadn’t been released yet. Now it has; hence this two-part addendum (four songs out of nine). Happens to the Heart (2019): The Hills (2019):
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