Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. I love “La La Land.” But then I’m a big fan of a) the city of my birth, and b) anything with Emma Stone. LikeLike

In reply to Roderick T. Long. Believe it or not, this was one of my late wife’s favorite songs, one of the first songs she played for me on one of our first dates. The first film we saw together (as a romantic couple) was “La La Land,&#8221…

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In reply to Roderick T. Long. I meant “pathetically,” not parenthetically. Affirmative action for men is pathetic–or contemptible, perhaps. After literally centuries of male domination in our culture (in every culture on the planet), …

In reply to mlyoung57. I’m not trying to be difficult, or to argue disingenously. I sincerely do not get this intuition, or put differently, don’t accept it. The thing is, I accept intuitions that are in the general moral vicinity. For inst…

“The article notes, somewhat pathetically” Did you mean “parenthetically”? I mean, it could go either way. LikeLike

[…] as someone who actually works in “the real world”–the Right’s tendentious misdescription of the non-academic world–I’m […] LikeLike

[…] someone who was very reluctantly forced out of an academic position in higher education, I can’t help viewing with dismay the tendency (almost entirely right-wing) to saddle higher […] LikeLike