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(Pixie Trix Comix) Pixie Trix Comix – More energy than I have
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(QC RSS) Drone Metal
at least it didn’t hit him in the junk
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(Policy of Truth) Israel, Apartheid, and American Journalism
Feel free to take this as yet another occasion to discuss “cancel culture,” or as an invitation to activism, but below the fold you’ll find a letter from Jewish Voice for Peace of Northern New Jersey to the publisher of The Jersey Journal over placement of this ad in that paper. Dear members and friends,In…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on The End of History (for Physics)? by David Potts
In reply to boydstun. Hi Stephen, In the spring of 2001, Daniel Sutherland and I organized a conference on “Kant’s Philosophy of Mathematics and Science.” That is—somewhat more honestly—he organized it and I helped. Here is a link to …
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(Jesse Walker, Author at Reason.com) Are We Always on the Verge of Civil War?
All that Civil War II talk is overblown—but that isn’t the only sort of political violence to worry about.
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(QC RSS) Kingdom Farts
he’s not wrong
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Ukraine: After the Last Sky by boydstun
March 2022 From the Russian Union of Rectors: “Before our eyes, events are taking place that excite every citizen of Russia. This is Russia’s decision to finally end the eight-year confrontation between Ukraine and Donbass, achieve the demi…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Were Rousseau’s Children Victims of His Moral Theory? by Narcissist or Neurodivergent?: 3 Observations from Rousseau’s Confessions – Kathleen Middleton Ball
[…] family life and relationships were not for Rousseau. This article by David Potts presents a compelling viewpoint on Rousseau’s philosophy and how it may have […] LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Ukraine: After the Last Sky by boydstun
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Assessments of effects under various levels of nuclear exchange (MIT Press, 2021) https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/devastating-effects-of-nuclear-weapons-war/?fbclid=IwAR0c2ENJ12cD68ejXDmqWwsWTwMFalrJtmdQdz7HtPjPjfrYh3K6ZN-…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on “An Unjust Law Is Not a Law” by Irfan Khawaja
I neglected to mention in the original post that Hart does have a brief discussion of the common good in The Concept of Law, pp. 166-67, though not one central to his discussion of the relationship between justice and legal validity. Unfortunately, I l…
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