@charlesmurray Stanley Rosen once finished a funny story about his time as a waiter in the dining room of the U of Chicago with, "let the Freudians make of it what they wish. I admit everything."
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Philebus
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It was fun. Covered lots of ground, including an account of life from Harvard through the 1970s. Omitting my work as a CIA covert counterinsurgency operator.
(For those who don't understand the CIA reference: that's one of the long-time rumors about me. I don't try to discourage it. Kinda like it, in fact.)
Josh Cohen@JoshCohenWriter
Just had an awesome discussion with the always interesting @charlesmurray! We discuss his books, his controversies, IQ in general, and I even sneak in some shameless self-promotion on my own book. Can't wait for you all to hear it! a.co/d/09zBpsO7
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It’s funny that the Straussians and the Cambridge school are basically mortal enemies when it comes to methods for situating and interpreting texts, and (in the most famous cases) have divergent politics. But both share an obsession with preserving liberal learning.
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What is the best book you've been reading, or have read, this month?
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@roddreher Lost my favorite double breasted flannel suit to the infernal moth larvae. I feel your pain.
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So, my day:
1) Get in my two-week-old car, see massive windshield crack
2) To the dry cleaners with three nice suits. "Look, sir," the man says, "there are moth holes in two of them."
3) Three wee bags of groceries from Publix: $114
But at least the air conditioning is excellent!
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@RobertTalisse Drink...heavily. EWR isn't an airport it's a punishment.
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GOOD NEWS: I'm all set for my voyage tomorrow to Croatia
BAD NEWS: Connecting in Newark
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@RobertTalisse I was on a cross country flight reading Hegel's Greater Logic. The guy from across the aisle taps me on the shoulder, shows me his book by Sam Harris, and tells me that I have to read it. I gave him a withering look and said (perhaps spat out?), "no thanks."
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Traveling alone on a transatlantic flight and you don't want anyone to chat you up? Just place this book on your tray table. Quine always has your back
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@Meghan_Ottolini @shaunvlog_ You have to share the tale of Kowloon's pu-pu platter and "Chicken Parm" Mirabelli. quinnmedia.blogspot.com/2006/07/day-in…
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@shaunvlog_ kowloonrestaurant.com
would love to meet you all there!
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When do our Scotland visitors discover Kowloon?
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Paper books? Yes. Exclusively paper books? Also yes.
Cassie Cynical🐩@TuckerPoodleMA
Weird question but do you actually still read paper books? I personally like listening to books but I do like a paper book too, not a kindle or anything. I’m trying to gauge what people prefer so help me out!
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If you fly this flag, you’re a racist and a traitor
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@NJSciretta @Tyler5089 @queenie4rmnola Well, once you finish the round of antibiotics I'm told it clears up.
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@NJSciretta @Tyler5089 @queenie4rmnola Oh, great. Another 90 IQ nitwit whose only major accomplishment is not getting an STD when the band he roadied for toured Southeast Asia. Just stick to smoking pot in your mom's basement, junior. You're too stupid to put near the levers of power.
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About 8 years ago Syracuse was at a crossroads. Either
1) Become the de facto big state school for NY and become affordable for at least in state residents or
2) Become a “premium luxury” institution that thinks families equate price tag with quality
They chose two and still have time to revector and pick 1
syracuse.com@syracusedotcom
Syracuse University issues financial warning as admissions slump: We’re in the red syracuse.com/syracuse-unive…
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@RdHdSteppeson Let's be freely offensive. Mel played an American Indian confronting a wagon with a black couple and their child. The punchline to the skit was Mel's character exclaiming "dey blacker then we are!" No, that level of comedy is not possible today.
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You know, that line about 'you couldn't make Blazing Saddles today!' just popped into my head and it has to be a sort of peak boomerism in a way.
Oh really? You couldn't make a movie with a black lead where the whites are nearly entirely either morons or evil?
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@NJSciretta @Tyler5089 @queenie4rmnola And Congress wonders why we think that they are corrupt, low grade morons. I'd have more faith in you, sweet pea, if you read Bailyn or Woods. You're just an underdone roll. I do love the viciousness and stupidity.
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@Tyler5089 @queenie4rmnola I believe you. That's why Howard Zinn's "A People's History of The USA" needs to be utilized in every high school's curriculum.
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@shartfart420 Is it too early to nominate for the Pulitzer Prize in photography?
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If it was the 90s there would be posters of her being mass produced for 19yo guy's walls
サッカー・W杯速報-Football GPT-@football_gpt
💥🇺🇸これぞアメリカすぎるサポーター
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@jeremydenk You're good. The housing inspector won't cite you until you've walled off one of the fire exits with books. Carry on.
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@roddreher She is lost to us for now and let it go. The mock outrage is tiring and, please, get a haircut, lose the beard, and shave those eyebrows. We all love to read about the early desert monks but no one wants to spend time with someone who finds basic hygiene a serious challenge.
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Listen to ten seconds of this. This is a woman, no matter what she did to her breasts and her voice, through testosterone. At most she sounds like an effeminate gay man.
Ian Miles Cheong@ianmiles
Ellen Page sits and explains what "healthy masculinity" is in the most effeminate way possible.
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