Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

In reply to mlyoung57. Michael Young: Zelensky has floated the idea of a kind of alliance of democratic nations. I like this idea in principle (because the U.N. seems hopeless as far as reforming or protecting from powerful autocratic nations goes), b…

In reply to Webmaster. From insisting that Noam Chomsky lacks expertise in linguistics and foreign policy, you now seem to want to convince us that you have expertise in the psychiatric diagnosis of distant political figures. Putin doesn’t want part o…

In reply to Michael Brazier. Chomsky’s views on linguistics are doubly irrelevant to the topic at hand. They’re most obviously irrelevant because we’re not discussing linguistics, we’re discussing Ukraine. They’re also irr…

In reply to Michael Brazier. That doesn’t strike me as a factually plausible description of the process of the EUA process for mRNA vaccines, or of the efficacy of any generic therapy. I’ll just say if that’s what it takes for a liber…

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In reply to Michael Brazier. That’s a good question, Michael B. It suggests that, indeed, a better settlement for Ukraine (and for us and for the cause of global democracy or anti-autocracy generally) is possible (if only due to Russia’s po…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Ok, I agree we didn’t agree with the take over of Crimea. We didn’t respond in the manner we are today. We didn’t agree, we just didn’t do that much about it. In any case, Putin was obviously not de…

In reply to mlyoung57. Is there any reason to think Russia has the political will and ability to pound away indefinitely, though? Sure, the Red Army was quite capable of losing battalions and replacing them with the next lot of conscripts, but Russia i…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. I do know where snark about Chomsky comes from. In his actual field of expertise, linguistics, Chomsky is the founder and leader of a research program intended to discover how humans understand and learn languages, which, how…