Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

[…] pugnaciousness led him to positions unhinted at by Szalai’s selections. In 1988, he advocated voting for Democratic “cautious spender” Michael Dukakis since Bush was providing […]

Cold deaths vastly outnumber heat-related ones, but mostly due to “moderate” rather than extremely cold conditions.

Climate change will drive very unequal impacts, with fewer deaths at higher latitudes but increased heatwave deaths across the tropics.

It just occurs to me that I spent much of the summer of 1994 studying ancient philosophy (well, Aristotle) with Roderick at an IHS Fellowship in Fairfax, Virginia. Here I am, almost exactly thirty years later, repeating the experience. Scary that thirt…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Hi Irfan, There are three main points in your comments that I want to address: whether the left is centrally concerned with justice; the status of Aristotelian “general justice”; and the relation of capitalism to justice. I’l…