Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(QC RSS) Questionable Methodology
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(The GiveWell Blog) September 2025 Updates
Every month we send an email newsletter to our supporters sharing recent updates from our work. We publish selected portions of the newsletter on our blog to make this news more accessible to people who visit our website. For key updates from the latest installment, please see below! If you’d like to receive the complete…
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(Policy of Truth) Navy Copter Down
Mikie Sherrill’s defenders are now doubling down on her Naval Academy issue. It isn’t enough for them to say that what she did was wrong, but a long time ago, which might be sufficient. They need to double down because they perceive, correctly, that something larger is at stake. They’re right, but not in the…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Can’t I enjoy my glass of wine and [squints] potato undisturbed
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, 9/29/25 The point of this joke is of course that it’s annoying when a telemarketer (perhaps one…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on You Lose: The NJ Governors’ Debate by Vic Kaplan
Thank You for writing the article and analyzing the candidate responses. My positions differ from other candidates is that I don’t view the federal government as having jurisdiction over immigration under Article I, Section VIII of the US Constit…
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(Our World in Data) Foreign aid from the United States saved millions of lives each year
For decades, these aid programs received bipartisan support and made a difference. Cutting them will cost lives.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Albert Aghazarian, a Postscript by Roderick T. Long
The second most famous Dr. Kevorkian! LikeLike
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(Policy of Truth) Albert Aghazarian, a Postscript
About five years ago, I posted a memorial essay here for the late Albert Aghazarian, the Armenian-Palestinian translator I met on my first trip to Palestine about twelve years ago. By chance, I met a friend of Albert’s tonight, Gaby Kevorkian, a retired physician and resident of Jerusalem’s Armenian Quarter, currently living in Princeton. Gaby…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Happy Halloween by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Travisparker. Your invocation of Surah Kahf is indisputably apt. The Surah describes the aesthetic features of the world as an “adornment” that can be (and will be) reduced to rubble, and describes seasonal variation as an examp…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on You Lose: The NJ Governors’ Debate by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to John Davenport. Andrew Zwicker is an unusually responsive legislator. I started contacting him a few years ago to complain about the non-responsiveness of New Jersey Transit to a recurring problem: they would constantly lock the shelters at…
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