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The 'universal language' of rhythm Rhythm. It's so much more than the backbone of music – it’s essential to how our brains function. Whether you think you've got it or not, why rhythm is a fundamental part of your everyday life.

#OnPoint's great episode on #rhythm
www.wbur.org/onpoint/2026...

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How to Teach A Race-Conscious History? | Lewis Gordon | Head of the Department of Philosophy at UCONN | Season 3 Ep. 6 | #61

Congratulations, Goutham Yegappan, on the 200th episode of #RE-EDUCATED!
For listeners who may be interested, my episodes (#57 & #61) are available on these two sites:
open.spotify.com/episode/4bNr...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yuaz...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyZx...

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Are we witnessing the death of expertise? Analyst Tom Nichols says the Trump administration is fundamentally incompetent. And he says there’s been a systematic erosion of expert trust for years — which is dangerous for American democracy.

#OrtegaYGasset's #Revolt_of_the_Masses portended this in 1930. We know what followed through to 1945. And now....
www.wbur.org/onpoint/2026...

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#IceInAirports

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Afroman prevails in defamation lawsuit brought by police YouTube video by PBS NewsHour

#Afroman
Gotta love him:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBlb...

and
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIEG...

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And of course, with 2 Jews there are 3 or more opinions....

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Jon Stewart: Why You Are Never Safe (The Truth About Home) | Trevor Noah YouTube video by The Daily Noah

#JonStewart & #TrevorNoah on #Blacks, #Jews, #BlackJews, etc.
FYI, Noah is a bar mitzvah. This is actually a conversation between two Jews.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EQS...

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As #politics involves #power, #truth in politics, and how it is conveyed, is a matter on which, as with #MAat, living together--social life, which brings #freedom and #meaning -- depends. The struggle for the good life continues. #Lies impede its fruition.

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#Khun-Anup, whose performance of #MdwNfr through 9 petitions to representatives of power defended #MAat 4000 years ago, brought what we would call #ethics, #health, #morality, #politics, #rhetoric, and #truth together in that ancient East African country. He fought through his #voice.

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The Eloquent Peasant & Egyptian Justice The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant is a literary work from the Middle Kingdom of Egypt (2040-1782 BCE) which illustrates the value society placed on the concept of justice and equality under the law...

One of the greatest exemplars #MdwNfr was devoted to #MAat (truth, balance, order, law, morality, justice, breath, life): the Sekhti-nefer-medu (#EloquentPeasant).
www.worldhistory.org/article/1127...
www.britishmuseum.org/sites/defaul...

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Before the ancient Greeks, however, the importance of #eloquence in #rhetoric was connected as well to divine speech, which the people of Kmt (ancient Egypt) called their language: Mdw ntr. Their word for rhetoric, which they saw linked to the divine, was Mdw nfr (good, beautiful, and fair speech).

3 weeks ago 1 0 1 0

On Truth in Politics The “philosopher of truth” (Jill Lepore, The New Yorker) shows why truth is an essential democratic value—and how it can be strengthened

On #Truth_in_Politics, check out @michael-p-lynch.bsky.social's recent book.
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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Yet we should remember that how we speak also conveys meaning, and both affect #truth. From #Socrates and #Plato's debates with the #Sophists to contemporary challenges to #truth in #politics, #rhetoric is serious business.

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#Rhetoric is increasingly being used as a metonym for #bullshit.

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While #rhetoric historically referred to eloquence, its use was primarily that of language to influence others, which was, understandably, important for political life. Recent use, at least in U.S. politics, is cynical and perlocutionary. It has become a patronizing term to talk down at opponents.

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There is a lot of rhetoric these days about #rhetoric.

3 weeks ago 1 1 1 0

Twitter: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

#JohnOliver discussing #Musk and #Twitter
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7ZG...

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Lewis R. Gordon Joins Tavis Smiley Podcast Episode · Tavis Smiley · February 25 · 38m

Recent conversation with #TavisSmiley
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...
www.spreaker.com/episode/lewi...

1 month ago 2 0 0 0

On the Life & Philosophy of Ernst Cassirer with Professor Sebastian Luft (Paderborn University). YouTube video by The Young Idealist

I am happy to share the latest episode of #TheYoungIdealist Series on Classical German Philosophy and Post-Kantian Thought. This special episode features Professor Sebastian Luft discussing the life and thought of Ernst Cassirer.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugim...

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Authors and new anthology celebrate people who identify as both Black and Jewish | Illinois Public Media On March 9, 2026, Illinoisans will share perspectives of being both Black and Jewish at the University of Illinois Alumni Association-Alice Campbell Alumni Center.

will.illinois.edu/dialogue/epi...

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Clara Mattei: #capitalism is not natural - it’s enforced
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9M_d...

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Frantz Fanon Award — The Caribbean Philosophical Association

The 2026 Caribbean Philosophical Association Awardees:

Judith Butler, Charles W. Mills (Posthumous), Mouhamadou El Hady Ba, Brian Kwoba (for Hubert Harrison), and Benjamin Barson (for Brassroots Democracy).
caribbeanphilosophy.org/frantz-fanon
caribbeanphilosophy.org/nicolas-guil...

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#ThreeGenerations in Coimbra in 2019
saladeimprensa.ces.uc.pt?col=canalces...

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