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I just got suspended from Facebook for jokingly “threatening” a friend with violence after he made fun of the design of PoT’s Facebook page. The canceler is canceled! LikeLike

In a belated attempt to join the twenty-first century, I’ve created a Policy of Truth Facebook page. This will allow me to promote PoT on Facebook, presumably winning it a wider audience, and potentially sparing my Facebook friends my constant harping on philosophical and political topics that alienate and bore them, when what they’re really…

[…] embarrassing and cringeworthy, I can only agree. But I would remind readers that I was the one who called for the cancellation of “Mulan” on this blog over a year ago. No one at the time responded to my anti-“Mulan” po…

[…] his post critiquing my original post on cancellation, David Potts has a long passage about the politics of our dealings with the People’s Republic […] LikeLike

In reply to Roderick T. Long. And I have to say the Weenix portrait does feel more like Descartes than the faux-Hals portrait; the latter looks more ready to fight a duel than to write a book. LikeLike

I’ve been meaning to write a “brag post” in which I brag about the publications of various people associated with PoT. I’ll double dip and mention this article in it. LikeLike

It occurs to me on reflection that my attempt to describe Um Kulthum as “Asian” was unsuccessful. We don’t really have a term in ordinary English for Afro-Arabic culture, where what’s being referred to is a cultural phenomenon t…

The painting on the left is no longer thought to be of Descartes. The authentic portrait of Descartes is now thought to be this: https://praxeology.net/3340comp.htm#1 LikeLiked by 1 person

Section Headings ~ https://forum.objectivismonline.com/index.php?/topic/36783-foundational-frames-descartes-and-rand/#comment-377831 LikeLike