Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Hospitals Are Not Safe: Infection, PR, and EVS by The Lessons of 9/11: Twenty-Two Years Later | Policy of Truth
[…] ****I highly recommend the book I’ve highlighted in the image, Michael Osterholm and Mark Olshaker’s Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs. Also worth reading for the larger picture is Anne Case and Angus DeatonR…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Kevin Vallier on “Cancel Culture” by The Lessons of 9/11: Twenty-Two Years Later | Policy of Truth
[…] of the issue. If anti-war activists can’t get equal time in schools, they should feel free to cancel the shit out of the other side (within the limits of the law and of basic moral decency): denounce them, […] LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on War with Iran (24): Regrets Only by The Lessons of 9/11: Twenty-Two Years Later | Policy of Truth
[…] say so–a lot, to everyone, including your political representatives. People may well regard you as a monomaniac, but better a monomaniac than a cipher. It takes just a few monomaniacs to start a war, but it […] LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on The JBMDL Afghan Account by The Lessons of 9/11: Twenty-Two Years Later | Policy of Truth
[…] home, and in our control–the welfare of the evacuees themselves. I’ve expressed my own emotional ambivalence about that here. But morally, there’s no room for ambivalence, however one feels: we owe these evacuees, […] …
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(Policy of Truth) The Lessons of 9/11: Twenty-Two Years Later
I post this every year around 9/11 (have done so since 2014), so here it is again with some revisions. I seem to have neglected to post it last year, and have not yet had the chance to add anything specific to the Ukraine War or proxy war more generally. But some of the implications…
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(QC RSS) Getting On With It
I’m sure it’ll go great
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(Policy of Truth) “Neo-Aristotelian Ethical Naturalism: Philippa Foot and Ayn Rand”
The latest issue of Reason Papers is out, vol. 43:2/Fall 2023, featuring a symposium on “Neo-Aristotelian Ethical Naturalism: Philippa Foot and Ayn Rand.” Participants include Aeon Skoble (Bridgewater State University). Douglas Rasmussen (Emeritus, St. John’s University), Douglas Den Uyl (Liberty Fund), Tristan de Liège, and Timothy Sandefur (Goldwater Institute). The issue also includes the latest…
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(Jesse Walker, Author at Reason.com) The Pirate Preservationists
When keeping cultural archives safe means stepping outside the law
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(A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry) Michael Taylor on The Development of the M1 Garand and its Implications
This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an interesting argument about the longterm impact of the M1 Garand, the US army’s extremely successful World War II and Korean era battle rifle, introduced in 1936. A fantastically successful design, Taylor argues here that it cast a baleful shadow over…
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(QC RSS) He Likes Being Up High
well I guess “on Liz’s head” isn’t particularly high
Got any book recommendations?