Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on The Soft Domination of Everyday Life by The Hard Domination of Everyday Life | Policy of Truth
[…] a bunch of recent posts (here, here, and here), I’ve been piling on employment-at-will, mostly from the perspective of the aggrieved […] LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Philip Pettit’s Republicanism: A Series (5/6) by The Hard Domination of Everyday Life | Policy of Truth
[…] a bunch of recent posts (here, here, and here), I’ve been piling on employment-at-will, mostly from the perspective of the […] LikeLike
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(Policy of Truth) The Hard Domination of Everyday Life
In a bunch of recent posts (here, here, and here), I’ve been piling on employment-at-will, mostly from the perspective of the aggrieved employee. Employment-at-will, I’ve argued, has problematic consequences for employees who are terminated at will, without cause. Terminations-without-cause incentivize arbitrary, unaccountable exercises of power in the labor market of the sort aptly criticized and…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Josh has some questions
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! Rhymes With Orange, 11/10/24 Hey, everybody. Have you ever wondered if demons, the dark angels who have turned…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on El Pueblo Unido Jamás Será Vencido by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Roderick T. Long. To answer your “why” question: An author who has a thesis has to make clear what her thesis is. If the thesis is about ethics or political philosophy, the thesis has to have some bearing on action, and I’…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Saturday is for cheap love
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! Beetle Bailey, 11/9/24 I know it’s just because of basic newspaper comic strip art hackery, but it really…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on El Pueblo Unido Jamás Será Vencido by Roderick T. Long
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. “But a person whose writing is totally detached from real-life political engagement is impoverished and pointless. Who is the audience? What is the point?” But why need those be questions that they must ask? The …
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on El Pueblo Unido Jamás Será Vencido by Irfan Khawaja
Coverage by The Daily Princetonian: https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2024/11/princeton-news-broadfocus-protest-trump-resistencia-en-accion-migrant-rights LikeLike
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(Jesse Walker, Author at Reason.com) How the GOP Became a (More) Multicultural Party
Neither Democrats nor Republicans seem fully able to wrap their minds around what’s happening.
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(A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry) Collections: The Afterlife of the Roman Republic
This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate poll (we’ll also do the winner, “The Problem with Sci-Fi Body armor” before year’s end, worry not), the “Afterlife of the Roman Republic,” which is to say a look at the continued existence of the various…
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