Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Alasdair MacIntyre (1929-2025) by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Markus. And just to be explicit about some of the MacIntyrean norms I enforce around here: if you try that shit again, I’m blocking you. LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Alasdair MacIntyre (1929-2025) by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Markus. Your claim turns on the assertion that “Free Palestine” is an inherently anti-Semitic movement. I don’t accept that evaluation, see nothing resembling an argument for it in your comment, and have never encountered …
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Alasdair MacIntyre (1929-2025) by Markus
Even after reading the paragraph you cite, I still can’t help but think that it is indeed “a long way from South Bend to Jenin Refugee Camp, or MacIntyrean Catholicism to BDS” – considering that he once wrote the following: “Loc…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Mostly kind Sunday
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger’s The Enthusiast is that novel! It’s even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Crock, 6/1/25 Imagine if you petitioned Almighty God for a full accounting of all the evil you’ve done…
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(Policy of Truth) Kalven’s Complicit Executioners
I’ve previously mentioned that I’ll be giving a presentation on institutional neutrality at the Heterodox Academy Conference in Brooklyn a couple of weeks from now, Tuesday, June 24th. I have yet to write the paper up, but here’s the abstract, below. I’d be interested in/grateful for any comments, questions, objections, etc. I’ll probably be posting…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Saturday quickies
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger’s The Enthusiast is that novel! It’s even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Rex Morgan, M.D., 5/31/25 Wait, is something happening in Rex Morgan, M.D.? Is something interesting happening in Rex…
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(A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry) Fireside Friday, May 30, 2025 (On Professional Military Education)
Hey all, we’re doing a Fireside this week! For this week’s musing, I thought it might be worthwhile – this being a frequent space for military history – to offer a brief outline of professional military education (PME) in the United States, which is to say the various stages by which US officers are academically…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Did anyone really call him Steve “Guitar” Miller or was that just my dad
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger’s The Enthusiast is that novel! It’s even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Blondie, 5/30/25 Here’s a joke for you: a guy with a master’s degree in ancient history and a…
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(QC RSS) In The Absence Of Proof
he’s not wrong…
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