Dan Speak

Jealous of 3-5, honestly.

How are the philosophers thinking about this? Are we boycotting JPhil, et al?

#philsky

What’s this about “the perfect fit happens and it all clicks into place?” I have no personal experience of this phenomenon.

(And, in consequence, as you might have inferred, I’ve got countless small homeless sections just laying around at the end of working papers/chapters).

William F. Buckley's Bill Never Came Due | Defector Perhaps the highest praise I can offer a book that took 27 years to complete and runs over 1,000 pages is that I can see why, and that it doesn’t feel like it. Sam Tanenhaus’s extremely long and anxio...

“Buckley spends much of his public life riding into battle on behalf of a League of Extraordinary Assholes…”

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When rules of order (Robert’s or otherwise) can make a big difference…

Seems both true and explanatorily powerful:

a man is singing into a microphone with the words " what goes around goes around goes around comes all the way back around " Alt: Justin Timberlake singing into a microphone with the words " what goes around goes around goes around comes all the way back around "

I regret to inform y’all that there’s a grandparenting version of this, too.

We the car dealership owners, in order to form a more opaque pricing scheme, establish economic predation, insure domestic mediocrity…

No need for juice with those natural bass notes.

Viva le France!

We are telling ourselves that the cultivation of good intellectual character in college students is a deep contribution to the common good. That could be true, couldn’t it?

Wake Forest's Educating Character Initiative announces $15.6M in new grants to 33 institutions | Wake Forest News Thanks to the support of Lilly Endowment Inc. and Wake Forest University, the Educating Character Initiative (ECI) has awarded $15.6 million in Institutional Impact Grants(opens in a new tab) to 24 pr...

Thrilled to report the good news that Wake Forest’s ECI is funding our “Intellectual Character Initiative” at LMU. Three years of focus on curiosity, open-mindedness, humility, courage, and perseverance in pursuit of knowledge and understanding.

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#philsky

No. This is against the natural law. Shame on you.

We have perhaps discovered a different explanation for the relative coolness of your previous neighbors…

ahh! Good notes.

Mightn’t the cultivation, maintenance, and national identification with global colonial empire contribute to some part of the explanation? Empiricism travels— and provides resources for techno-economic hegemony… someone could contend.

Another cool way to honor and remember Helen De Cruz

Oh man, it’s like winning a little mini-lottery. Congratulations!

The early optimism of aspiring U.S. oligarchs

“It won’t be ME who gets attacked by an open window on the fourteenth floor!”

Have you considered running for office? The grand old party could use a rearward thinker like you.

The first step is admitting you have a (conceptual) problem.

Respect.

Friggin color essentialists.

skipping my vacation because chatgpt can simply summarize everywhere I would have visited for me

Cool! Now let's spend as much money on philosophy departments as we do prisons and see what happens then!

Is it just my luck or is everyone falling in love with red pandas in their feed?

“What would you guys like, ‘Fast Times at Ridgemont High’ or ‘Tree of Life’?

It’s all terrific. But the final scene converts it into transformative art.