Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

I haven’t had a chance to watch the Mearsheimer video yet; I plan to do that this weekend. But at lunch I was surfing the internet and came across an interview in the New Yorker with Mearsheimer from Tuesday. Why John Mearsheimer Blames the U.S. for th…

In reply to EissaMo (@EissaMo8). I don’t do Twitter, could you kindly provide links to Chomsky’s videos? I can look at them after I get your links. sean s. LikeLike

Roderick, Thank you so much for writing this and for the link for additional parts of the story of your amazing mother and your life! Man alive, the differences in family/cultural settings of our beginnings! One’s home at the start is so much wit…

3/3/22 – NYT “What Rashida Tliab Represents” LikeLike

The consequences of nuclear war would be devastating. Much more should – and can – be done to reduce the risk that humanity will ever fight such a war.

In reply to sean samis. “But this is not about Russian security concerns. Ukrainian membership in NATO is a threat only to Putin’s desire to rebuild the Russian/Soviet Empire. This is an imperialist power-grab; plain and simple. No. it’s a …

See my obituary for her here: https://web.archive.org/web/20210223232251/https://aaeblog.com/2017/09/01/rip-jorie-blair-long/ LikeLike

Today would have been my mother’s 96th birthday.  (She died at 91.) The other day, while indulging in my usual frustration over how my college students are so often ignorant of so many things that I was familiar with well before high school, it occurred to me that a substantial portion of those things were…