Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(Policy of Truth) Statement to Princeton Town Council
Statement Urging Passage of a Municipal Resolution in Favor of the Immigrant Trust Act Princeton Town Council Princeton Municipal Building 400 Witherspoon St Princeton, New Jersey July 28, 2025 My name is Irfan Khawaja, I’m a resident of Princeton, and I support a municipal resolution in favor of the Immigrant Trust Act. I’ll be forwarding…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Hope Jami gets involved in the underground electronic music scene
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! Gil Thorp, 7/28/25 There are two types of Gil Thorp summers: the wacky ones, with plotlines like “Kaz…
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(Our World in Data) The world left its fight against tuberculosis unfinished — how can we complete the job?
If we get it right, the world could save more than 1.2 million lives every year.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Just an Amtrak Away by Roderick T. Long
As the kids say: Δαρείου καὶ Παρυσάτιδος γίγνονται παῖδες δύο, πρεσβύτερος μὲν Ἀρταξέρξης, νεώτερος δὲ Κῦρος. LikeLike
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(xkcd.com) Kite Incident
This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.
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(Policy of Truth) Just an Amtrak Away
I’m sitting on an Amtrak on my way home from Providence, Rhode Island. The guy sitting next to me, who works in marketing for a New York law firm, is reading Xenophon’s Anabasis in Greek “for fun.” I’m reading Josephus Flavius’s Jewish War, for leisure if not precisely for fun. The woman to my right…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) We know not what may be, and what we may be is smooshed flat
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, 7/27/25 The Blondie creative team has never met a young person that it didn’t want to call…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) The battle of the generations is OVER
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! The Lockhorns, 7/26/25 The random, silent bystanders who show up in The Lockhorns represent one of the strip’s…
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(The GiveWell Blog) July 2025 Updates
Every month we send an email newsletter to our supporters sharing recent updates from our work. We publish selected portions of the newsletter on our blog to make this news more accessible to people who visit our website. For key updates from the latest installment, please see below! If you’d like to receive the complete…
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