Blain Neufeld 🇨🇦

My quibble is with this: "Within my world of academic philosophy I’ve never met anyone who endorses the specific principle of justice that Rawls proposed."
But Joe -- we've met *many* times!

A week after my interview with Gina Schouten about her book _The Anatomy of Justice_ was posted at New Books in Philosophy, my article on that same book was posted at _Analysis_...

Thanks so much!

UW System President Embraces AI Jay Rothman says artificial intelligence is transforming the state’s public universities.

Yet another reason why I keep thinking about (gaming out) early retirement...

I'm now a co-host at "New Books in Philosophy" (part of the New Books Network).
My first interview has been posted. It's with Gina Schouten (Harvard U) regarding her recent book, _The Anatomy of Justice_ (OUP, 2024).

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Picture of snowstorm in Toronto

Getting a little bit of snow here in Toronto today... ❄️

De Adder political cartoon ridiculing DJT.

How can there be three more years of this insanity?
Every day feels like a month...

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."

The coming years are going to reveal a lot more waste on 'AI' like this by our governments, to the tune of 10s of billions squandered on appalling nonsense, all to make rich Tech Bros richer.

Local man would be angrier about Liberal's undemocratic floor-crossing scheme if it wasn't so funny to imagine Poilievre's face OTTAWA – Local voter Martin Kofman finds it appalling that the Liberals have clearly hatched a plan to obtain the majority government voters denied them by luring Conservative MPs to cross the floor, ...

Local man would be angrier about Liberal’s undemocratic floor-crossing scheme if it wasn’t so funny to imagine Poilievre’s face

Poilievre asks BC Conservative leader for tips on just refusing to leave VICTORIA, B.C. - CPC leader Pierre Poilievre has expressed keen interest as news broke that BC Conservative Party leader John Rustad is unilaterally rejecting his party’s attempts to remove him.

Poilievre asks BC Conservative leader for tips on just refusing to leave

de Adder cartoon showing DJT asking MBS for a bone saw

"Trump is a pedophile" email raises questions about whether Trump is a pedophile WASHINGTON, D.C. – With many of Jeffrey Epstein’s documents and emails now available to the public, subtle messages from the disgraced financer like “Donald Trump is a sex criminal I have done sex cri...

"Trump is a pedophile" email raises questions about whether Trump is a pedophile

Looking forward to it! Rawx on.

Poilievre prevents more MPs from leaving party by locking doors, swallowing key OTTAWA – In an effort to prevent any more defections from caucus, party leader Pierre Poilievre has reportedly locked all Conservative MPs in an undisclosed room in Parliament Hill before swallowing the key.

Poilievre prevents more MPs from leaving party by locking doors, swallowing key

New meme just dropped

Nova Scotia MP Chris d'Entremont resigns from Conservative caucus to join the Liberals | CBC News Nova Scotia MP Chris d'Entremont resigned from the Conservative caucus Tuesday — and he's joining the Liberals.

Poilievre is poison.
“Gerretsen said d'Entremont was leaving the Conservatives because the party has become more stridently right-wing under Poilievre.”

One of a small number of books that changed the way I see the world.

Tech CEOs suggest AI job losses could be offset by UBI which they will violently oppose PALO ALTO, CA - A group of Silicon Valley tech CEOs assure North Americans that job losses from artificial intelligence could easily be mitigated by universal basic income, while also adding that they...

Tech CEOs suggest AI job losses could be offset by UBI which they will violently oppose

We’re Number Two! How Trump ceded the future to China

The mad self-destruction of the US by its gangster president is astonishing to witness.

Fortunately, the Leafs have spent decades preparing Toronto sports fans for crushing heartbreak

How incredibly disappointing. *sigh*

Please don't let this be another 18 inning game. Let's get a HR Vladdy!

YES! Jays up by 3! 🤘

Can you spare a minute to help this campaign? Remove Pete Hoekstra as US ambassador to Canada. Let's send Pete Packing!

Time to send the arrogant ignoramus home.

So many own goals.
Once again: higher ed is one of our most successful exports. We export more higher ed to China than soybeans. And yet Trump and the mini-Trumps are deliberately destroying the quality of our product

Centrist D66 party will win most seats in Dutch election, exit poll suggests Result would pave the way for the Netherlands’ first out gay prime minister and end far-right populist Geert Wilders’ time in power

Some positive news...
"Wilders’ short-lived period in power after the PVV’s shock victory in 2023 seems over for now: all major mainstream parties have ruled out joining a coalition with the anti-immigration firebrand’s party."

Two erstwhile Royals sporting LA dodgers baseball caps.

That's it -- time for Canada to finally sever its ties to the monarchy.

Tolkien would've found these people thoroughly repulsive (more akin to Saruman & Wormtongue than Aragorn & Gandalf).