Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(Policy of Truth) Albert Aghazarian, a Postscript
About five years ago, I posted a memorial essay here for the late Albert Aghazarian, the Armenian-Palestinian translator I met on my first trip to Palestine about twelve years ago. By chance, I met a friend of Albert’s tonight, Gaby Kevorkian, a retired physician and resident of Jerusalem’s Armenian Quarter, currently living in Princeton. Gaby…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Happy Halloween by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Travisparker. Your invocation of Surah Kahf is indisputably apt. The Surah describes the aesthetic features of the world as an “adornment” that can be (and will be) reduced to rubble, and describes seasonal variation as an examp…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on You Lose: The NJ Governors’ Debate by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to John Davenport. Andrew Zwicker is an unusually responsive legislator. I started contacting him a few years ago to complain about the non-responsiveness of New Jersey Transit to a recurring problem: they would constantly lock the shelters at…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on You Lose: The NJ Governors’ Debate by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to John Davenport. I actually think that’s a great idea. I’m sure you could make contact with Cohen via her Substack and gauge her interest. More generally, though, I think The Democracy Amendments needs to get out there more. As I…
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(QC RSS) Peer Pressurization
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(xkcd.com) 100% All Achievements
This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Happy Halloween by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Travisparker. Apologies, your comment was stuck in the spam filter, and I only just happened to see it. LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Orientalism, Racism, and Islam: Edward Said Between Race and Doctrine by Morituri Te Salutant | Policy of Truth
[…] *See, among many others, Irfan Khawaja, “Essentialism, Consistency, and Islam: A Critique of Edward Said’s Orientalism,” Israel Affairs, online publication Sept 21, 2007, and “Orientalism, Racism, and Islam: Edward Sai…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Dreaming Murder by Morituri Te Salutant | Policy of Truth
[…] could say that with impunity if we were discussing Islam–and have, for decades. But Judaism, I know, is special, and so are The Jews. We mustn’t upset them. We […] LikeLike
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(Policy of Truth) Morituri Te Salutant
I woke up this morning to find an email from one of my best friends in Palestine, someone who lives in a small village in the South Hebron Hills. I’ve excerpted it below, deleting person names, and omitting place names and other particulars, and corrected the grammar of one sentence for clarity. It’s in English,…
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