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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on “Kalven’s Complicit Executioners” by MAP Public-Facing Philosophy | Policy of Truth
[…] reprise of an earlier announcement: I’ll be presenting “Academia’s Complicit Executioners: A Critique of the Kalven Committee Report” at the MAP Public Facing Philosophy conference on Saturday, September 6th. The first…
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(Policy of Truth) MAP Public-Facing Philosophy
A reprise of an earlier announcement: I’ll be presenting “Academia’s Complicit Executioners: A Critique of the Kalven Committee Report” at the MAP Public Facing Philosophy conference on Saturday, September 6th. The first link above goes to a video of my talk at the Heterodox Academy conference this past June in Brooklyn. I’m hoping to have…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Re-organization Tempest Brewing by Roderick T. Long
In reply to Roderick T. Long. Note that the album cover seems to promise (falsely) Midsummer Night’s Dream. The pixie figure could be either Ariel or Puck, but the ass-headed guy is clearly Bottom. LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Re-organization Tempest Brewing by Roderick T. Long
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. An island with no people for people with no island! They jump pretty quickly from “no indigenous inhabitants” to “uninhabited.” I forget whether I’ve told you this story, but back in the early …
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(Jesse Walker, Author at Reason.com) The Man in the Red Beret: What Curtis Sliwa Brings to New York’s Wild Mayoral Race
The Guardian Angels founder battles Zohran Mamdani for the anti-establishment vote while he fights Eric Adams and Andrew Cuomo for the anti-socialist vote.
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Belated change belatedly acknowledged
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! B.C., 8/27/25 A fun thing that happened in B.C. about halfway through the decade or so when I…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Re-organization Tempest Brewing by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Roderick T. Long. The editors of my edition suggest that The Tempest is “uniquely adaptable.” “Prospero’s enchanted island could be almost anywhere, and indeed, in modern productions and appropriations has been set i…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Re-organization Tempest Brewing by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Roderick T. Long. Actually, incest is a minor theme in the secondary literature on The Tempest. There’s a suggestion that Prospero agrees to have Miranda married off to Ferdinand because he’s uncomfortable with his own desire fo…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on And So It Continues by Resistance and Retaliation | Policy of Truth
[…] consider Princeton. The ICE raids began in Princeton in July 2024, months before the ITA was ever proposed in the state legislature, and ten months before the […] LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Resistance in Action (5) by Resistance and Retaliation | Policy of Truth
[…] a later post on the subject, I took issue with a prominent and well-regarded Princeton activist who went out of […] LikeLike
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