Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. The question I’m asking is actually broader than endorsement of this statement. What I’m really looking for is candid engagement with the question whether BDS-endorsing organizations would be permitted freely and …

So far, 21 hours after the fact, this is the response to my posting a link to the preceding post at Bari Weiss’s Substack, where the University of Austin announcement was first made. Irfan Khawaja 21 hr ago I’d love to get a straight answe…

In reply to Roderick T. Long. I just meant that either of the two, radiology or bioethics, would be easier to write than top-tier philosophy. LikeLike

The anti-Biden meme is meaner than your grandfather’s shoot or heck. It also offers a fascinating view of how language changes.

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. “through the hospital’s medical library databases to read up on bioethics and related subjects. There was some interesting stuff there, but I don’t think any of it was theoretically on par with what you would find in op…

Well, here come the latest saviors of higher education, ready to save it from itself: A group of scholars and activists are planning to establish a new university dedicated to free speech, alarmed, they said, “by the illiberalism and censoriousness prevalent in America’s most prestigious universities.” The university, to be known as the University of Austin,…