Philosopher at the University of Idaho, writing about money (and sometimes Anscombe). Free estimates
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"The Problem of Relativism" critique has its seeds in Sextus's rejection of the Academics (_Outlines_, I.3-17); alas, any serious reader of the _Outlines_ will be unimpressed by the victory these authors achieve against their etiolated strawman
Happy Dock Ellis Day!! 8 walks, 3 batters hit (the same guy each time), 6 strike-outs, no hits, 9 innings, W.
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Only clip that correctly defines the median american voter: youtu.be/Oqk_fN0NRgg?...
The data are vibes. It's a movement everyone is calling the New Analytic Straussianism
🎵 Don’t know much about history ... 🎵
“Hegel remarks somewhere that all facts and personages of great importance in world history occur, as it were, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.”
— Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (1852)
This is a pretty wild disclaimer to read at the top of a document called "Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences."
In other words, if this would not pass peer-review, why has it been released?
wow, just…wow
This reminds me of that scene in The Big Short when Steve Eisman asks, “Why are they confessing?” and Vinny Daniel says, “They’re not. They’re bragging.”
wow, just…wow
This reminds me of that scene in The Big Short when Steve Eisman asks, “Why are they confessing?” and Vinny Daniel says, “They’re not. They’re bragging.”
K. Anthony Appiah, Paul Boghossian, Katherine Fleming, and Sean Wilentz on what’s gone wrong in the humanities.
K. Anthony Appiah, Paul Boghossian, Katherine Fleming, and Sean Wilentz on what’s gone wrong in the humanities.
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A new poll from the New York Times shows potential Democratic voters want the party to move to the right, are happy with where it is ideologically, and rate socialism highly. Huh?
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-06-12...
Stephen Schwartz
WashU and Vanderbilt AAUP chapters have issued a *joint* statement on the "State of Scholarship in the Humanities" report commissioned by our university leadership. bpb-us-e2.wpmucdn.com/sites.wustl....
Phillip Maciak
Rep. Haridopolos: "I credit the president. He held firm and made sure we have peace in our time."
Matt Seybold
Matt Seybold
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Phillip Maciak
Two divisive campus leaders commissioned a report that asks an equally divisive question: Have the humanities and social sciences been corrupted by politics? https://chroni.cl/4eafiNL
G Elliott Morris
Aaron Rupar
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A group of well-known scholars convened by two prominent campus leaders studied the question and found “a deterioration in scholarly standards” across several disciplines.
