Connor Ewing
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@ConnorMEwing
Visiting Fellow, Princeton | Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto | American Political Thought & Constitutional Development
Thinking about writing a short op-ed on the decline of university divinity schools and the simultaneous rise of university business schools.
FIRST LOOK: Val Kilmer has been resurrected via AI to star in the new movie "As Deep as the Grave." Kilmer was cast in the movie in 2020, five years before his death. But he was too sick amid his throat cancer battle to ever make it to set. Now an AI version of the actor is appearing in the film, with the full blessing of his daughter, Mercedes: "He always looked at emerging technologies with optimism as a tool to expand the possibilities of storytelling. This spirit is something that we are all honoring within this specific film, of which he was an integral part.” “He was the actor I wanted to play this role,” says writer-director Coerte Voorhees. “It was very much designed around him. It drew on his Native American heritage and his ties to and love of the Southwest... His family kept saying how important they thought the movie was and that Val really wanted to be a part of this. He really thought it was important story that he wanted his name on. It was that support that gave me the confidence to say, okay let’s do this. Despite the fact some people might call it controversial, this is what Val wanted.” wp.me/pc8uak-1lH1PI
Texas A&M Law proudly welcomes Lawrence B. Solum, a renowned legal theorist and scholar. Solum will serve as co-director of the Center on the Structural Constitution at Texas A&M Law, alongside Profs. Katherine Mims Crocker and Neil Siegel. 🔗hubs.li/Q0479flJ0
something i've noticed is that people who are new to something — whether it's tailored clothing or catholicism — are often very rigid and dogmatic in their thinking. much more zealous than people who have been into it for a while. not sure what causes this.
Great men of history had little to no introspection. The personality that builds empires is not the same personality that sits around quietly questioning itself. @pmarca and I discuss what we both noticed but no one talks about: David: You don't have any levels of introspection? Marc: Yes, zero. As little as possible. David: Why? Marc: Move forward. Go! I found people who dwell in the past get stuck in the past. It's a real problem and it's a problem at work and it's a problem at home. David: So I've read 400 biographies of history’s greatest entrepreneurs and someone asked me what the most surprising thing I’ve learned from this was [and I answered] they have little or zero introspection. Sam Walton didn't wake up thinking about his internal self. He just woke up and was like: I like building Walmart. I'm going to keep building Walmart. I'm going to make more Walmarts. And he just kept doing it over and over again. Marc: If you go back 400 years ago it never would've occurred to anybody to be introspective. All of the modern conceptions around introspection and therapy, and all the things that kind of result from that are, a kind of a manufacture of the 1910s, 1920s. Great men of history didn't sit around doing this stuff. The individual runs and does all these things and builds things and builds empires and builds companies and builds technology. And then this kind of this kind of guilt based whammy kind of showed up from Europe. A lot of it from Vienna in 1910, 1920s, Freud and all that entire movement. And kind of turned all that inward and basically said, okay, now we need to basically second guess the individual. We need to criticize the individual. The individual needs to self criticize. The individual needs to feel guilt, needs to look backwards, needs to dwell in the past. It never resonated with me.
Billionaire Marc Andreessen says he has "zero" introspection, and that the idea itself is a modern invention.
A letter exchange between Karl Popper and Raymond Aron regarding the “Positivism Debate” in which Popper refers to Adorno and Habermas as lunatics and Aron calls Marcuse a sophist (1970):
dear apple, the iPod needs to come back. not for nostalgia. for the parents who want their kids to love music and audiobooks without a browser, social media, and the whole internet attached to it
Honored to report that How to Disagree is forthcoming in @Cornell_L_Rev @RichardHanania @jacklgoldsmith @ilan_wurman papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
I imagine being a professor is a lot like being a bartender: you’re responsible for welcoming and entertaining, serving the goods, keeping track of who’s done what, disciplining when appropriate, and maintaining godlike patience with those whose perception is a little foggy
