Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on From Apartheid to Genocide: Israel in Gaza by butimbeautiful
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. I guess one must care though, tempting though it is to feel, serves you right. The wrong people always get it in the neck. Someone said to me the other day, if Israel got nuked, I wouldn’t care. But the challenge is to …
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Nationalism and Liberalism: ‘Policy of Truth’ at the APA by Roderick T. Long
To anyone interested in attending, the APA doesn’t release meeting locations ahead of time or to non-registrants, but I plan to post the info here and on facebook and on my website as soon as I know it (which will be no sooner than when I arrive …
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Nationalism and Liberalism: ‘Policy of Truth’ at the APA by Roderick T. Long
Thanks! I should announce this on my media too. Jennifer has had to pull out, unfortunately. I’m staying a couple of blocks away at the more affordable Park Central (just across the street from the now sadly no longer extant Hotel Wellington, wh…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on From Apartheid to Genocide: Israel in Gaza by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to butimbeautiful. In a further irony, your comment has been stuck in my spam folder for over a week. Because by WordPress’s algorithms, the phrase “Nazi Israelis” is by definition spam to be dismissed and deleted without con…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Teaching Machiavelli in Palestine by Nationalism and Liberalism: PoT at the APA | Policy of Truth
[…] G8C, listed at APA Draft Program, p. 37). I’ll be presenting some version of my PoT blog post, “Teaching Machiavelli in Palestine” in the first of the two […] LikeLike
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(Policy of Truth) Nationalism and Liberalism: ‘Policy of Truth’ at the APA
Just a quick announcement that there will be something of a PoT presence at the American Philosophical Association’s Eastern Division meeting this January in New York (to be held at the opulent, hence utterly unaffordable Sheraton New York Times Square). Roderick Long has, through the Molinari Society, arranged a two-part session for Tuesday afternoon, January…
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(A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry) Gap Week: December 1, 2023
No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of town. We’ll be back to our regular schedule next week, with the next big topic I want to tackle being what a shield wall is and how it actually functions on a…
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(Our World in Data) Conflict data: how do researchers measure armed conflicts and their deaths?
There are many ways to measure armed conflicts and conflict deaths. What approaches do different researchers take?
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(QC RSS) A Thing People Do
Faye would be happy to help
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(Coding Horror) I Fight For The Users
If you haven’t been able to keep up with my blistering pace of one blog post per year, I don’t blame you. There’s a lot going on right now. It’s a busy time. But let’s pause and take a moment
Got any book recommendations?