Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(Policy of Truth) Activism and Its Critics
The migrant defense group that I work with, Resistencia en Acción, held a rummage sale the other day, raising $3,700 for migrants detained in a recent set of raids here in Princeton. That, by any measure, is a success. Think about what was involved in making it happen. Someone had to conceive the idea, then…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) She can also swim, I guess, but that seems pretty normal
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! Mary Worth, 9/14/25 So, adding to the list of Olive’s Known Powers: she can predict the movements of…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Mistah Kirk, He Dead by Roderick T. Long
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Yeah, I meant “villain from Livy’s standpoint.” LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Mistah Kirk, He Dead by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Roderick T. Long. Haven’t gotten there yet. Just keeping track of the Alexanders and the Aristobuluses in Josephus was a full time job. They all seem like villains to me, honestly, even the best of them, but even worse are their mode…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Life is very long when you’re Blondie
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! Blondie, 9/13/25 Blondie began in 1930, in a world now mostly alien to us, but it was originally…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) I guess you really have to … hand it to them [everyone starts yelling at me]
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! Rex Morgan, M.D., 9/12/25 Say what you will about Rex Morgan, M.D., but it is straight-up killing it…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Mistah Kirk, He Dead by Roderick T. Long
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. In Livy’s early books, I love how in every generation there’s always an Attius Clausus a.k.a. Appius Claudius, and he’s always a villain, as though he kept getting reincarnated. I often suspect that Livy is…
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(QC RSS) Good Talk, Everybody
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