Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Yes, but you’ve got to hand it to her–she’s a master of administrative bullshit artistry. The comment about the NYU research job comes across as the cri de coeur of someone who wants to get out there and “make a difference&#8221…

A research job at NYU. The horror, the horror. LikeLike

[…] worked in the ninth-rate prison they call a “university.” Did they miss the memo that I resigned over their malfeasances? Shall I resend […] LikeLike

Is there anything more contemptible than revisionist history from a failed university president? The interviewer asks Prisco why she left Felician University for Holy Family University. We get no cogent, responsive answer to this question. She was drawn from Felician University to Holy Family, we’re told in this article, because of the latter’s sense of…

[…] one thing I will say in unequivocal defense of Curtis is that he was one of a tiny handful of people who got the 9/11 celebration rumors exactly right, and saw th…: he denounced the rumors forthrightly as a lie while acknowledging that …

Here’s an article from The New York Times on the mixed bag that is Curtis Sliwa. It’s hard for me to be impartial because we’re friends (distant friends, but still friends). I freely confess to being prone to dismissing his wrongdoing as venial shenanigans and dumb, regrettable shit of the kind everybody does. He just…

[…] in a way that’s compatible with respect for individual rights. Rawls leaves a place for institutional desert, but fails to deal with any of the complexities discussed above. To the best of my knowledge, […] LikeLike

[…] desert plays any important role in determining the distribution of goods in market-based societies. Rawls seems to suggest that moral desert is an impossible or incoherent ideal as such, Nozick argues that desert-based-on-merit is impossible …