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  • Changing Minds Across the Back Fence

    Changing Minds Across the Back Fence2

    The Dobbs v. Jackson case that recently overturned Roe v. Wade has generated more average, everyday conversations about a Supreme Court decision than I’ve ever seen. I’ve heard strangers walking by me talking about the issue while on their phones. Neighbors even discuss it over the back fence. My mother had one of these back-fence

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  • Change Yourself, or Change the World?

    Change Yourself, or Change the World?2

    It’s a perennial philosophical question: What is the best strategy for addressing life’s problems? Change yourself, or change the world? In a clip from a few years ago that a student recently shared with me, the leftist public intellectual Slavoj Žižek offered a take that my student apparently found convincing. To judge from Žižek’s online popularity,

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  • Certified AI-Free

    Certified AI-Free0

    Recently, my YouTube feed has been dishing up videos of ambient background music created without AI. With uncanny precision, the internet gods of YouTube have identified my sympathies. They seem to know that I have declared unending war on so-called “art” made by artificial intelligence. I play these recommended videos out of mere protest –

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  • CEO Tells Employees Who Support Trump’s Antics to Take a Hike

    CEO Tells Employees Who Support Trump’s Antics to Take a Hike0

    Via Fox News: If you voted for Donald Trump, you may not feel welcomed at Grubhub. The CEO of Grubhub, an online food delivery service, sent a company wide email Wednesday suggesting employees who agree with President-elect Donald Trump’s behaviors and his campaign rhetoric should resign. “If you do not agree with this statement then

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  • Central planners have a long history of controling birth

    Central planners have a long history of controling birth0

    Even after all these years of experience, socialism still has a reputation for being a humane alternative to capitalism. It’s preposterous because socialism means controlling or stealing people’s property, whereas capitalism mean nothing more or less than the freedom to own, accumulate, and trade property. But that’s not all that socialism means. It also means

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  • Cell Phones, Silence, and Solitude: Finding Stillness in a Noisy World

    Cell Phones, Silence, and Solitude: Finding Stillness in a Noisy World1

    “Whether or not it draws on new scientific research, technology is a branch of moral philosophy, not of science.” ~ Paul Goodman During my sixteen years in the classroom, I’ve witnessed the unbelievably rapid transformation of mobile phone technology. At one point, I overheard a brutally honest conversation between a group of senior boys. They felt

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