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Alasdair MacIntyre turned 96 on Sunday. I got him a present.
It’s James Lindsay.
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Daniel Addison
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Daniel Addison
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Philosophy Professor at Hunter College/CUNY.
New York, NY Katılım Ocak 2015
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@Lynn_Henning @FeserEdward You’re right in thinking our guys suck but wrong in thinking your guys don’t suck.
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The "pox on both houses" cynicism is a dead-end and dead-wrong take: One party supports clean air, water, and climate science; renewables over fossil fuels; democracy over autocracy; Ukraine over Russia; getting money out of the electoral process; no tax breaks for the wealthy when deficits are the price paid; U.S.A.I.D that preserves lives and our presence worldwide; sustaining national parks and wild areas over exploitation; vaccines over disease comebacks; no Gestapo-like actions against immigrant families and children when visa overstays or asylum petitions are a factor. On and on and on -- there is no equivalency in the parties' policies.
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The GOP deserves to become a smoking crater. The Democrats will be no better. Elections are now just about punishing whichever gang of lunatics is holding power at the moment. This is unsustainable.
(((Harry Enten)))@ForecasterEnten
This is the most troublesome sign I've seen for Trump & the GOP. Trump's now a record low 41 pts underwater on the cost of living per Yahoo/YouGov. He's 60 pts underwater on the issue with indies!! Wave adios to the House & maybe Senate cause you can't win with these numbers.
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It’s important to remember that this was once described as “inevitable,” and that there was a time when you were derided as a Luddite for being skeptical of it.
In retrospect lots of people are acting like it was clearly always BS, but for a time we were told it was inevitable…
More Perfect Union@MorePerfectUS
Meta is shutting down its VR metaverse on June 15th.
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Trump was never the one.
His flaws finally became catastrophic.
An essay-cum-Major Admission from me.
unherd.com/2026/03/trump-…
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Wealthy Americans pay through the nose to avoid the media landscape that Big Tech (and many public schools) are pushing on our kids.
Worth thinking about.
gal debored@ckayerawlings
Some friends said they’re sending their kids to a no screens private school and I was curious how much it cost. It costs $47,200/year!!!!!!!!!!! $47,200!!!!!!! $47,200 DOLLARS
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Many thanks to @moveincircles for her very kind words about my book Scholastic Metaphysics, about which she says “I don’t think Professor Feser intended it as a page turner, but I tore through it like it was an airport novel.” As she explains in this lucid and important lecture, she finds in Aristotelian-Thomistic metaphysics the vocabulary needed properly to understand today’s deepest moral and political controversies. Especially important, as she says, are the distinctions between (a) act and potency, (b) substance, accident, and substantial form, and (c) the four causes. She notes that it was the moderns’ attack on and burial of Aristotle, Aquinas, and Scholasticism that would pave the way for developments such as feminism, contraception, and the trans phenomenon. And she says that these are held in place by a “Thomophobia” (great coinage!) that dismisses traditional metaphysics a priori as a tool of oppression. Give her lecture a listen.
First Things@firstthingsmag
Mary Harrington's presentation of this year’s D.C. Lecture “Our Crisis is Metaphysical” on Thursday, March 5th at 6 p.m. at the Hillsdale College Washington D.C. Campus is now available on YouTube. @moveincircles youtu.be/_hbSLkjdFt4
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@CivicNatalist “nobody can read more than a couple thousand books”
Uh. 3130 just from Amazon, not counting Barnes & Noble, gifts, used books etc.
And I had a more than full time job.
Marco Inaros@Marco20307855
I like to read…
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Having zillions of books is just glorified hoarding behavior. Nobody can read more than a couple thousand books lifetime, you're either trying to buy them for archiving or you're a hoarder and the line can get super fuzzy super fast.
Hannah Ward 👩🏻🏫 Mom (x3) | Learning Designer@HannahWardEdu
How does your home library stack up? In 2023 YouGov surveyed 29,000 Americans to see how many books they have in their homes. The results were disappointing to say the least. - 0 books: 9% (no books AT ALL) - 1–10 books: 20% - 11–25 books: 14% - 26–50 books: 13% - 51–100 books: 12% - 101–200 books: 10% - 201–500 books: 7% - 501–1,000 books: 4% - More than 1,000 books: 3%
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@MattWalshBlog The book to read on this is Charles Taylor, Sources of the Self.
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This is, of course, retarded. The great men of history were deeply introspective. They wrote memoirs, journals, diaries, poetry. They were philosophers, theologians. They yearned. They were romantics. They were in fact much more introspective than the average person today.
However it is true that none of the great men of history, or any men at all (or even women), were sitting around whining to therapists about their feelings. I think the difference (and maybe this is what he's trying to get at) is that historical man wanted to KNOW himself while modern man cares only about how he FEELS about himself. The former wanted to know himself and the world beyond regardless of how it made him feel. The latter wants to feel good about himself even at the expense of knowing himself and the world beyond. That's why he drugs himself into oblivion. But this is not introspection. It's anti-introspection.
More Perfect Union@MorePerfectUS
Billionaire Marc Andreessen says he has "zero" introspection, and that the idea itself is a modern invention.
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Actually, the guy who was the point person for Iran at the White House and was fired by the Trump Administration after being Loomered wrote EXACTLY that warning 4 days before the war started. The article was titled “Why Iran Will Escalate.” But who needs experts…
foreignaffairs.com/middle-east/wh…
Acyn@Acyn
Doocy: You said: they hit Qatar, Saudi Arabia UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait nobody expected that. We were shocked. Are you surprised that nobody briefed you ahead of time that that might be their retaliation? Trump: Nobody. Nobody. No no no no. The greatest experts—nobody thought they were going hit…
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@Phantasmic777 @TheRoyalSerf this was why I watched One Battle and this was 100% my face watching it
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@CivicNatalist it's important to own at least 50 books you haven't yet but are desperately yearning to read.
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Every teacher I know personally is leaving the profession because students have become unteachable. They don’t read, they don’t talk to each other, they have no curiosity, no passion, no interest in learning. Giving kids unfettered access to screens has ruined a generation.
Steve Magness@stevemagness
In 2008, 62% of teachers said they were very satisfied with their job. In 2022, that dropped to 12%. We've got a serious problem brewing in education...
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@Cernovich "the unexamined life is not worth living" said Socrates - probably around 1990 or something.
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@g_shullenberger @pmarca The book set off a wave of suicides in Germany in emulation of the hero.
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Napoleon’s favorite novel was Goethe’s Sorrows of Young Werther, which if you’re unfamiliar consists entirely of a young guy “sitting around moaning about his feelings” before eventually killing himself. He read it 7 times, carried it with him on his campaigns, tried to write his own novel in the same style, and sought out Goethe to discuss it while he was conquering Germany.
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It is 100% true that great men and women of the past were not sitting around moaning about their feelings. I regret nothing.
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@ggreenwald @Swearengen1971 if the Epstein operation didn’t exist we’d have to invent it to explain how this was possible.
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It's been obvious for months now that the second Trump term serves Netanyhau, Palantir, Jared Kushner, Ben Shapiro, Lindsey Graham, corporatist power, K street sleaze and Mark Levin.
Meaning: the second Trump term is fully shaped by the exact factions Trump vowed to vanquish.
Karoline Leavitt@PressSec
Ben Shapiro praises Trump’s Iran strikes as ‘single bravest foreign policy move of my lifetime’ foxnews.com/media/ben-shap…
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@a_newsman @megynkelly the attacks… will increase the trends.
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