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Why study Philosophy? Money, power, virtue humanities.uci.edu/news/desk-chai…

Here’s Trump’s Memorial Day gift to all of us: his blueprint for replacing democracy with a fascist cult of personality complete with an “abortion police.” Project 2025, in word-searchable form: documentcloud.org/documents/2408…

BREAKING: Slate reporting there is another tape like Access Hollywood—but this time Trump is using the N-word! Per The Apprentice producer Bill Pruitt, in 2004 Trump asked of contestant Kwame Jackson, “would America buy a n—winning?” slate.com/culture/2024/0…

Men who act like jerks are more likely to get away with sexism. When a man is rude to other men, people are more likely to overlook his misogyny. They think he's just an asshole. We shouldn't give pricks a pass. Treating everyone poorly is not an excuse for degrading women.

I strongly recommend listening to her!!

I endorse this effort to give ‘assholery’ (the word, not the conduct) greater currency johnsonp.substack.com/?utm_source=na…

Dostoevsky understood people so well, it's ridiculous:

Me rambling about a bunch of fun topics youtu.be/0KmFB66NrMc

Nietzsche describes the resentful man...a chilling passage

We need to find a better way to manage sovereign debt and balance of payments crises without putting the burden solely on the most vulnerable through IMF conditionality. The international monetary and financial system has significant material implications for the lives of

Outstanding ahole management!

New book: The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Money: Volume 1: Ancient and Medieval Thought, edited by Joseph J. Tinguely amzn.to/3L3Q85t

philosopher. Not Locke, he said, but Hobbes, for his systematicity, and Rawls. Here is what Jerry wrote a few years later in Rescuing Justice and Equality. And supposing he was right or nearly so, consider what it means to *hate* this and to find it lacking any nobility.

Rawls fought bravely in the Second World War and by all accounts was a remarkably kind and fair man. Theory of Justice concludes with a call to develop purity of heart by acting with grace and self command towards others. Its hard to think of a much more noble sentiment or author

“I think #RankedChoiceVoting could have a huge impact and make politics in this country more humane and better.” - Mark Cuban dallasnews.com/business/2024/…

"Weird" is code for "expresses obsessive hostility to women, including the women in his own personal life" - and because MAGA Republicans don't get the code, they don't understand why they are losing the argument.

For the record, it is simple: Good weird: Being unique, being your true self, not conforming to old oppressive standards of how you should live your life. Bad weird: Tracking people’s periods, banning reproductive care, calling people without children “sociopaths,” banning