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YouTube video by Center for Dewey Studies Kimberly Harris, "Truth in Form: Du Bois' Aesthetic Epistemology and the Deweyan Social Imagination"

Center for Dewey Studies continues to knock it out of the park with their brown-bag series:

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German entry for the Snow Sculpture Championship (2025)

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Eugenio Eduardo Zampighi, "Three Generations" (1890)

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YouTube video by Center for Dewey Studies Kimberly Harris, "Truth in Form: Du Bois' Aesthetic Epistemology and the Deweyan Social Imagination"

Center for Dewey Studies continues to knock it out of the park with their brown-bag series:

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#philosophy

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

German entry for the Snow Sculpture Championship (2025)

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Eugenio Eduardo Zampighi, "Three Generations" (1890)

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Percy Shelley’s journal: last night I awoke to a creature watching me through my bedroom window with a face white as chalk

Mary Shelley’s journal: read four books today. Learning three languages while discussing astronomy and mathematics. Also Percy tried to chase his creature again.

Just a Reginald Marsh kind of morning, I guess...

"Dangerous Curves" (1940); "On the Boardwalk" (1942); "Hudson Bay Fur Company" (1932); and "Merry-Go-Round" (1930)

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Just so much ambiguity!

Hey!!!! That's great, John!

You Can’t Hack Your Higher Purpose: Restoring Faith in Vocation in the Age of AI Increasingly, college students are outsourcing their schoolwork to artificial intelligence. This development is troubling for college educators everywhere, but

Out today! vocationmatters.org/2026/02/26/y...

Special thanks to @cicnotes.bsky.social for the opportunity and to @scribnerumcp.bsky.social @jamesmlang.bsky.social and my colleagues at Assumption U for their input

I thought Ethics of Ambiguity is Beauvoir?

Sanctioned Bigotry A first-ever documentary history of antisemitism in the United States, spanning five centuries In a 1790 letter to Rhode Island Jewish leader Moses Seixas, ...

“Sanctioned Bigotry is a stunning, original history of antisemitism in the United States. It is a superb collection of primary sources, with clear essays to provide context. This will be an essential and invaluable resource for all who study this vital topic.”—Erwin Chemerinsky, UC Berkeley Law Schl

Just a Reginald Marsh kind of morning, I guess...

"Dangerous Curves" (1940); "On the Boardwalk" (1942); "Hudson Bay Fur Company" (1932); and "Merry-Go-Round" (1930)

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A Little Bit of Green During the bleak midwinter, I read an article that featured a green wallpaper design by William Morris, so I thought that readers might welcome a few other splashes of green…

New blog post up: "A Little Bit of Green," and it really is just that...

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Giorgio de Chirico, "Self-Portrait" (1925)

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The Religion of Existence TheReligion of Existence reopens an old debate on an important question: What was existentialism? At the heart of existentialism, Noreen Khawaja argues, is a story about secular thought experimenting ...

Suffice to say that Nietzsche, Camus, and other "Romantic idealist" atheists have plenty to offer Christians.

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Losing Faith in Atheism I spent years searching for a livable secular world view, but none of them quite offered the value of belief.

Always glad when popular writers offer primers on philosophy, & more so when people walk through their experience of faith and ultimate meaning. But Nietzsche as a "secular guru" and Trump as "our first Nietzschean President"? What is he talking about?

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A Little Bit of Green During the bleak midwinter, I read an article that featured a green wallpaper design by William Morris, so I thought that readers might welcome a few other splashes of green…

New blog post up: "A Little Bit of Green," and it really is just that...

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#education

open.substack.com/pub/campbell...

Giorgio de Chirico, "Self-Portrait" (1925)

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Haven't read the whole post, but strongly agree with Andy Smarick (@smarick) on this part:

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Buddhist Lintel (Thailand, 12th century) and Archway (India, 9th century)

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I see it as a false distinction.

The Insignificance of Judicial Opinions — California Law Review Among law students, lawyers, jurists, and legal academics, the reasoning contained in Supreme Court opinions forms the indispensable object of examination. The centrality of those opinions is instille...

What worries me is nonsense like this (from someone who should know better), which trades in cynicism, encourages the public to focus on preferred political ends w/o giving reasons, and encourages just the sort of helpless overreaction that you & I fear.

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political temperature that results, but I also think that a better understanding (even of arcana and technical questions) can empower citizens.

Again, I don't think we are disagreeing. I'm all for disempowering the court (vis-a-vis other branches/levels of governments, and in our minds/discourse), but I also think it offers a shared basis for civic discourse. I think we both want a better public understanding of the SC's work & the lower...

shared deliberation. (Every man a justice!)

Smarick's point, though, is that it depends on justices exercising humility and intellectual clarity, not grandstanding or taking potshots.

Agree (my biggest complaint about modern liberalism) but they aren't opposed. Understanding the logic of decisions underscores the proper limits of courts, empowers people to exercise local agency, and allows meaningful critique of poor decisions. At their best, public opinions allow...

Haven't read the whole post, but strongly agree with Andy Smarick (@smarick) on this part:

governingright.substack.com/p/grading-th...

Buddhist Lintel (Thailand, 12th century) and Archway (India, 9th century)

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