Top 9 posts for 2019
My most popular posts for this year.
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Philosophy’s Longest Sentences Contest — Lyotard edition
For our ongoing contest, alert reader George King sent me this libido-sapper from Jean-François Lyotard’s 1974 Libidinal Economy. 355 words: “We should not continue to confuse the closure of representation, that sarcastic discovery, that sham dropping of the scales from our eyes, by those thinkers who come and tell us: what is outside is really
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On the alliance of Communists and Nazis, 80 years later
Two key excerpts from a 2019 European Parliament resolution, 80 years after the start of WW II: “B. whereas 80 years ago on 23 August 1939, the communist Soviet Union and Nazi Germany signed a Treaty of Non-Aggression, known as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, and its secret protocols, dividing Europe and the territories of independent states
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Dylan Thomas reads “A Child’s Christmas in Wales”
At YouTube or embedded below:
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Livestream Q&A at thinkspot, Jan. 4
My followers at thinkspot can join me on Saturday, January 4th at 12:00 PM Central Time for my next livestream Q&A session. Ask me anything about philosophy and my related areas of expertise, as well as any follow-up questions from my “There Are No Snowflakes” livestream lecture. (If you’re not already on thinkspot, sign up
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The semi-schmuck who loses the girl in that holiday movie
Very amusing: From his perspective, how events unfolded and what’s he’s learned from it all.
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“Dear Satan” — charming Xmas short
A typo causes eschatological drama.
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Free association rejected — two variations
Two recent sad results: 1. Freelancers want to work for companies, but government says No. 2. Women want a women-only club, but government says No. The right to free association has both a positive and a negative application. The positive right is to associate with whom you choose. The negative is not to associate with whom you
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