Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

In reply to Michael Brazier. Michael B; Like I said to Irfan: Categorical claims about what “leftists” or “conservatives” say are almost invariably wrong. Such grand generalities betray a blindness on the part of the claimant. One who can’t find someth…

In reply to Michael Brazier. Michael B; Much to my surprise; I agree with much if not all of this. sean s. LikeLike

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Irfan; Categorical claims about what “leftists” or “conservatives” say are almost invariably wrong. What Glenn Kessler says does not taint all on the Left. I am on the Left and I never even heard of the fool before this. If f…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Irfan; Regarding, “We invited them [Ukraine] into the NATO accession process in the full knowledge that we had no intention ever of defending them against Russia.” Where do you come by this information? Since Ukraine is not c…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. I can only remark that it’s been many a year since center-left liberals had any capacity for objectivity on, well, anything. I can’t think of a single issue on which their position was arrived at by rational proce…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. My point about the Russian separatists is not what you took it to be. It’s that, outside of Donestk and Luhansk where they hold power as Putin’s clients, there are no Russian separatists left in Ukraine. The Russi…

In Eichmann in Jerusalem, Hannah Arendt famously described Eichmann as embodying “the banality of evil.” I think of contemporary American life as embodying the banality of injustice, as witness the video below. Warning: it’s eighteen minutes long, and absolutely devoid of dramatic interest. That’s precisely what makes it an instance of the banality of injustice.…

In reply to Michael Brazier. I forgot to respond to this: The only thing I can see Putin’s war on Ukraine achieving, that is in Putin’s interests, is demonstrating to the world that when a Democrat is in the White House, NATO membership is not worth h…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. On democracy in Ukraine, my only point is that in their haste to discredit the Right (e.g., Tucker Carlson), liberals are producing arguments that make even less sense than Tucker Carlson habitually does. Glenn Kessler’…

In reply to sean samis. (Responding to Sean): Nothing we did compelled Putin to invade, but much we did convinced Ukraine that they should become a member of NATO. We invited them into the NATO accession process in the full knowledge that we had no int…