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Freedom & Flourishing Project
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Freedom & Flourishing Project
@FandF_Project
Studying the history, theory, and practice of classical liberalism.
Ann Arbor, MI Katılım Kasım 2017
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@EggerDC I've read several, liked some, gave up after "Child of God." Just so dark, man.
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I love Cormac McCarthy but I also feel like everybody clowning on this post just has a different axe to grind with Rufo, because "just not in the mood to get pounded by unrelenting nihilism for 350 pages" is a perfectly respectable reason to go read something else
Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️@christopherrufo
I read the first hundred pages of The Road last year, and read the first hundred pages of Blood Meridian this year, and in both instances, gave up, because the books never clicked. Lyrical writing, but the characters are reduced to way down Maslow's hierarchy, and the tone is so relentlessly bleak, with almost no humanity breaking through, it was difficult to feel anything besides the flint clicking against the cold steel in the overwhelming darkness. I know many of you love it, but to me, it's overwrought, overstylized, and overhyped.
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@IzaBooboo I endorse the OP unironically (except for the cashews).
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@TonerousHyus They're some feminized leftist idea of "de-toxified" masculinity, which is as incoherent as it is creepy.
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Talarico is like Walz. He codes as “moderate” and masculine the way upper class white women feel most comfortable with masculinity. Which is being completely weak, feckless, and talking about how “Jesus heckin loves migrants and abortion”
It’s just poison for real people
Sean T at RCP@SeanTrende
It's worth exploring why this stuff (Talarico's Vegan Campaign) matters. Talarico has a lot of things going for him but if he has a superpower, its that he codes as "Moderate Normal Dude." It's (partly) why people thought (wrongly) he was more moderate than Crockett. 1/
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@CheeseForEvery1 @Cernovich You’re right of course and thats the important part but….Tucker physically fit?!
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@Cernovich The people skeptical of a Tucker Carlson/Joe Kent ticket aren’t the ones who need to spend more time offline
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@ArminRosen Wow he really got oneshotted by that shiksa huh
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Really important literary detective work from David Samuels, who compared various manuscript versions of The Great Gatsby in the Princeton library's Fitzgerald archive and found abundent proof of the title character's Judaism tabletmag.com/sections/arts-…
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@Legal_Fil Also a serial liar about his biography
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That he is both a blowhard and someone with significant memory issues, to put it politely.
Jeff Greenfield@greenfield64
Small point: Biden says he got to appoint the first Black supreme court justice. Thurgood Marshall was appointed in 1967. Biden entered the Senate in 1973. What am I missing or misread?
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Harvard used to have a cap on Jews. It appears the university has fewer Jewish students now than it did then.
Harvard Jewish Alumni Alliance@HarvardJews
"A Narrowing Gate" - NEW REPORT on Jewish enrollment at Harvard and its peers, 1967-2025. Harvard has been cut in half - from ~14% to 7%. Penn fell similarly. Yale declined ~42%. But at Brown it grew. At Cornell it held. At Princeton it barely moved. harvardjewishalumni.org/jewish-enrollm…
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@byrne_a “OUP should note,” I wrote, “that quality control in this area of philosophy is not working.” Indeed.
Glad it to have it in the new P&PA, anyway!
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I was invited to review an @OxUniPress book on gender identity for Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. You’ll never guess what happened next. 👇
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Here's what Columbia PhD students say about Jews and Israelis behind closed doors.🧵Since 10/7, grad students in the union have:
- Convinced @Columbia's anthropology dept. to NOT discipline instructors for discrimination if it's Palestine-related (#10 below)
- Said Persian Jews were "one of the most fascist" demographics in America (#17)
- Shot down a resolution to condemn "anti-Israeli hatred" and national origin discrimination because "I don't want to normalize Israel as a 'nation state' " (#12)
- Complained about "Zionist arbitrators" inside Columbia's anti-discrimination office during workplace retaliation cases (#11)
- Openly discussed going "on the offensive" inside classrooms and doing "teach-ins in our classes" on Palestine (#10)
- Said they were "very tempted" to try to claim a piece of Columbia's $21 million antisemitism settlement fund, even though this student was not Jewish (#16)
These PhD students have current or past research and teaching positions at Columbia, including with undergrads. If you think you've seen all the antisemitism, pro-terror, and anti-Israel activity from Columbia there is to see, buckle up. I've reported some of this in @TheFP previously, but here's a fuller picture. Thread below ⬇️
@CUJewsIsraelis @CU_JewishAlumni @CampusJewHate @shoshanaaufzien @LishiBaker @gil_zussman @columbiafsi @LeoTerrellDOJ @JeffreyLax
Jonas Du@JonasYDu
🧵As Columbia's grad students geared up to strike, the United Auto Workers—their parent union—told them to cut the "crazy shit." But they're still asking for BDS/divestment from Israel, demanding the end of the Tel Aviv University dual degree and Tel Aviv global center, and more. Union leaders and UAW also fear that a dispute with Columbia could lead the National Labor Relations Board to decertify grad student unions nationwide. New in @TheFP
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Paul Ehrlich provides us with staggeringly certain, practically dispositive evidence that peer review allows basic, critical mistakes to be published with the imprimatur of the establishment.
The Honest Broker@RogerPielkeJr
This from Paul Ehrlich will make you think "If I'm always wrong so is science, since my work is always peer-reviewed, including the POPULATION BOMB and I've gotten virtually every scientific honor." Link in reply
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NEW:
Emails released by the House Education Committee show that Qatar pressed American universities with satellite campuses in Doha to coordinate their messaging with the regime in the days following Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack.
University officials were instructed to “be aligned” to ensure “information sharing and no surprises,” @CAndersonMO reports.
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Since when are notes from Mom inadmissible?
Professor Griggs@ProfessorGriggs
Oh golly, I cannot wait until my next Legal Profession class. I *will* be modifying the syllabus to address this unauthorized practice by a law professor.
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@3RenChengHu Yes. Reality has a left wing bias if you only publish results favorable to the ideology.
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@FandF_Project @collected_mind It was stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Slashed out of the canvas by art thieves in 1990. It’s still missing.
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@collected_mind @BBHerodotus What happened to it?!
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@BBHerodotus It makes me sad to walk through the room at the Gardner where it used to be and see the empty frame.
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@PAHoyeck The Hare-Anscombe and Hare-Foot spats are amusingly catty. Like Blackburn-McDowell.
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Before hordes of angry people descend on me, this is very tongue-in-cheek. I really hated this paper when I last read it in my undergrad because I was very sympathetic to a lot of the philosophers Anscombe dislikes (esp. R.M. Hare).
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POV: You're about to revisit the most annoying philosophy paper you've ever read
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