Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

In reply to djr. Well, damned if Cleveland did not land on the cutting-room floor. This Ohioan hangs his head in shame. And that’s the example: Cleveland deserves better than it gets; my example was more tourists (and this sort of desert does not…

As an Ohioan I feel obligated to point out that Cleveland appeared in your title only to be forgotten, as Cleveland tends to be. To counteract this negligence: LikeLike

[…] Afghanistan has too much sovereignty Fernando Teson, RCL […]

I was sitting in my cubicle mid-day when an email with an odd subject line tumbled into my inbox: “JBMDL Afghan.” I was from a bona fide sender, so I opened it and took a look. It turned out to be an email from the director of financial services at a major hospital system, making…

The US administration has justified the withdrawal from Afghanistan by saying that the United States should not fight a civil war in another country. That war should be fought, they think, by the people themselves, not by a foreign power. Both Democrats and Republicans share this view, as apparently does the general public. Critics of…