Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Back in the late 90s (I forget the precise year), Leonard Liggio did me the favour (if that’s the word for it) of getting me a fellowship to spend some time (I can’t recall whether it was one week or two; it felt …

In reply to Roderick T. Long. Give them time… LikeLike

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Ah, I found the missing info at “Militarist Monitor.” The network that funded the magazine and my internship was called the “Institute for Educational Affairs,” and was run by Leslie Lenkowsky. It&#821…

In reply to Roderick T. Long. I was a conventional, garden-variety liberal Democrat in college. I started writing for The Princeton Tory, a conservative magazine, for purely practical reasons: they allowed me to write long-form essays, they didn’…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. I think they should ban the set of all sets that are not members of themselves. LikeLike

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. In college I was writing simultaneously for the Harvard conservative student paper, the Harvard libertarian student paper, and the MIT-based Objectivist student paper ERGO. And I was a member of Young Americans for Freedom. …

In reply to Roderick T. Long. Did I mention that I worked for NAS as an undergrad intern from 1988-1991? If anything, I’m the one here who took the crap on freedom. Mea maxima culpa! LikeLike

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Don’t we all? LikeLike

In reply to Roderick T. Long. In other words, you hate freedom. LikeLike