The introduction to Diarmaid MacCulloch's The Reformation begins with the striking line "Who or what is a catholic?" and I think perhaps now is the time for us to ask "Who or what is a protestant?"
The term here is “freeloaders” — ‘moderate’ antivaxxers have long expected others to uphold the social contract and vaccinate while they do what quack doctor Bob Sears advocated in his parenting book as “hiding in the herd”. Then when too many weaken herd immunity & their kid may get sick they 💉
"holy shit! you were censored for believing in God?"
LOL no, not that
"for thinking it's appropriate to observe religious holidays in the workplace?"
haha no not that
"Which religious beliefs, exactly?"
oh, you know the ones
Absolutely incredible.
NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone.
Watch with sound on.
I get the sense that seeing parents and children sort of snaps people out of their own individual business. It reminds everybody that humans are dependent on one another. Or it helps people borrow the kind of joy only kids have. (E.g., my oldest daughter always dances to the music at Trader Joe’s).
i think folks might be unfamiliar with "the pharisees", so let's make it clear: he's saying the jews run the press, and that they are conspiring to undermine the military. it's not just antisemitism, it's indistinguishable from nazism.
The circle of death is:
Cut faculty (or non-replace) so you offer fewer classes so fewer people enroll so you cut faculty so you offer fewer classes so fewer people enroll so then the market has spoken.
"The rise of extreme wealth is one of the clearest signs of this imbalance. In 1987, billionaires held wealth equal to 3% of global GDP. Today this tiny elite, just 0.0001% of the world population, owns the equivalent of *16%* of world GDP in wealth."
The message left by Pope Leo XIV in the guestbook of the Great Mosque of Algiers: “May the mercy of the Most High keep the noble Algerian people and the entire human family in peace and freedom.”
NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health.
'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:
I’m going to remember this when my own baby crashes out later tonight, this is a helpful perspective.
whenever neighbor’s baby not just cries but really starts crashing out and waking me up in the middle of the night, i think to myself “it really do be like that sometimes, little buddy.” something vaguely relatable about hearing an infant Going Through It.
Trump could not be setting the stage for her more perfectly if he tried
I’m out here waiting for papers like “hyperintensional genealogy” and “facticity, thrown-ness, and s5 modal logic”, “the grounds of why I am so wise”
Like, I might *hate* the way Foucault does what he does, but I *get* the value of the project. I might be *roll my eyes* at Sartre’s novels and lectures. But c’mon, it’s clearly philosophically valuable.
You can teach people not to write and work this way and still think it’s worth engaging with!
Man I’m about as analytically-oriented as they come (don’t get me started about Heidegger) but Nietzsche is one of the best and most subtle moral psychologists of all time and anyone who can’t say so isn’t really reading. You can hate the form - I really do - while seeing its philosophical value!
as I wrote in my book last year, Trumpism is political messianism
It’s “OCIA” now and I just know someone at the other side is like “IT WAS A RITE UNTIL WOKE CHANGED IT”
> the emperor is at war with the pope
what century is it
I doubt that Pope Leo XIV will lose any sleep over this, before he begins his pilgrimage to Africa tomorrow. But the rest of us should. Because it is unhinged, uncharitable and unchristian. Is there no bottom to this moral squalor?
Winning campaign slogan here if anyone wants it.
The "Western Civilization" thing on the Right is bizarre to me. I love reading Plato and Augustine and Kant. I love playing music by Chopin and Debussy.
There are also so many other interesting and helpful things from other times and places in philosophy and the arts, and those are great too.
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
This is what violating academic freedom looks like
God setting up the moon like when you turn on the TV for the cat when you go to the grocery store
Shoots deployed! You can watch the live feed and relax! www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3kR...
Houston integrity loud and clear
Cal State Channel Islands philosophy lecturer Jonathan Caravello has just been ACQUITTED of assaulting ICE/CBP last summer while protesting a brutal Ventura County cannabis farm raid! His defense argued he threw a tear gas canister away to protect protesters. The jury acquitted him in two hours.
