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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on I Don’t Wanna Hold Your Hand by Irfan Khawaja
I am, uncharacteristically, not going to defend a positive thesis of my own on this one. So all of my comments will have a meandering, indirect relationship to your proposal. I’ll say this much: your proposal is certainly a reasonable way of deal…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on I Don’t Wanna Hold Your Hand by John Davenport
it is one of those problems, I think, concerning where the threshold is. There may be some level of injustice past which a regime cannot be supported by its athletes. But merely showing up is hardly support, as Gary Kasparov’s life has proven. Re…
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(Policy of Truth) I Don’t Wanna Hold Your Hand
There’s been an outpouring of sympathy for the Ukrainian fencer Olha Kharlan for not shaking the hand of her Russian opponent, Anna Smirnova. Kharlan’s refusal was, of course, an impassioned protest against the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The underlying assumption here is that an athlete in an international competition is in some sense a representative…
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(Cat and Girl) Strategies To Beat the Heat
This is a syndicated post, originally published by Dorothy at Cat and Girl.
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(QC RSS) Volatile Mix
they’re…getting along?
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(Our World in Data) We just published a new topic page on Food Prices
Explore global data on food affordability, and expenditures on food across the world.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Titanic Malice by John Davenport
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. I fear that this result will eventually be replicated with one of Elon Musk’s specialty voyages into orbit for multimillonaires. I give Musk credit for being enterprising though. I just hope he is more careful. LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on “Living Authentically” by John Daveport
Thanks this may be helpful to a couple graduate students LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on “Living Authentically” by Stephen Lindsay
In reply to Monica Vilhauer. Ok, thanks. That helps. Good to hear those issues weren’t papered over, and the limits and difficulties of authenticity are examined. LikeLike
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