Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Romania’s history offers a rare natural experiment on what happens when abortion laws change rapidly. What can the rest of the world learn from this?

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Boris Von Faust? Was that his real name? Sounds more like a comic-book supervillain than a хулиган. Speaking of Russian matters, I’ve been enjoying this: LikeLike

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Ah yes, the hobbits. Just four of them were instrumental in overthrowing two military empires. Then they got home and overthrew the government they found there. Imagine if they’d been hooligans! LikeLike

In reply to Roderick T. Long. I actually had an undergraduate student at Felician who’d grown up in the USSR, and who’d had a “hooligan” upbringing in the Soviet-era heavy metal scene. I encouraged him to go to grad school in hi…

In reply to Roderick T. Long. I’m reminded of another putatively anti-Soviet author much enamored of the term “hooligan.” https://philpapers.org/rec/BREHAH-4 LikeLike

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Rand’s style of expression when talking about 60s protesters is uncannily like that of Soviet officials (or their modern successors under Putin) talking about anti-govt protesters. At least this time she said “ho…

In reply to Roderick T. Long. Yes, I’m well aware that “Bloody college hoodlums scream demands that ROTC units be banned from college campuses,” and that you are among the bloodiest and most hoodlum-like of the bunch. https://courses….

We’ve been calling for this since the 1960s. (I mean “we” loosely, of course, as I was a tot.) LikeLike