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Stars Through the Storm: Non-Reductionist Materialism III: Spiritualism as a Non-Sequitur
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Monday, January 21, 2013. Non-Reductionist Materialism III: Spiritualism as a Non-Sequitur. It can be easy to fall into thinking of the small and the large as a simple binary: if merely atomistic, i.e. “physical,” explanations of things do not give us a complete picture of the world, then necessarily some god or universal force guides and explains the larger whole. How else could one explain holistic phenomena? 8220; Can Science Explain Everything. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Dear Sam Harris: Let...
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Stars Through the Storm: Trayvon Martin Case: Let's End This Stereotype of Black Criminality
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Sunday, July 14, 2013. Trayvon Martin Case: Let's End This Stereotype of Black Criminality. The Zimmerman acquittal is about preserving a pernicious, but deeply embedded, cultural image in America that young black men are, almost by nature, criminals. It isn't true, of course; high crime in inner city neighborhoods where many black people have no choice but to live is due to poverty and other factors, not race. Yet this stereotype exists and must be knocked down. Pausing to think like this is the first s...
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Stars Through the Storm: We Have Met the Barbarians, and They Is Us
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Thursday, March 21, 2013. We Have Met the Barbarians, and They Is Us. Historically, the term "barbarian" came from the ancient Greeks, who heard the unfamiliar languages of other peoples as the nonsense syllables “bar, bar,” akin to our word “blah” (if we were to invent the term today we would call him Conan the Blahblahian! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Non-Reductionist Materialism III: Spiritualism as a Non-Sequitur. Dear Sam Harris: Letter to a Casual Authoritarian.
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Stars Through the Storm: What Happened to Journalism Can Happen to Academia
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Friday, June 29, 2012. What Happened to Journalism Can Happen to Academia. Briefly, the facts of the case are these. Showed that Dragas felt Sullivan wasn’t moving fast enough to adapt to what New York Times simpleton David Brooks, a Wall Street journal editorial, and a single article in the Chronicle of Higher Education said was a new academic environment:. The board never formally evaluated Sullivan's performance. But the emails obtained by the the Cavalier Daily. Don't dismiss the for-profit colleges ...
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Stars Through the Storm: Thought of the Day: Statism vs. Socialism
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Tuesday, February 7, 2012. Thought of the Day: Statism vs. Socialism. February 8, 2012 at 12:28 AM. If tea baggger says Obama is a socialist, you would say you wish it were so? February 20, 2015 at 8:02 AM. You are correct that socialism and statism are two distinct concepts. However, it is not an accident of history that the two have been intimately intertwined since the beginning of the 20th century. I challenge you to find a single example of a non-statist socialist regime. The standard definition of ...
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Stars Through the Storm: The Iraq Syndrome, or War Wisdom
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Tuesday, October 29, 2013. The Iraq Syndrome, or War Wisdom. To catalog and disable Syria’s chemical weapons, with the cooperation of the Syrian government. A Washington media consensus quickly emerged that the threat of US military violence forced Assad to compromise, and there may be some truth to that claim. I am not expert enough in such matter to judge, but the claim that coercive diplomacy worked in this case, or works in general. Has been questioned by those more knowledgeable. Or is it a cycle?
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Stars Through the Storm: Preface to a Handbook For Democracy
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Sunday, March 17, 2013. Preface to a Handbook For Democracy. I’ve had an idea kicking around my head for a needful project: a collection of political theory essays and entries that describes the multitude of ways that elites and oligarchs use power to undermine democracy. The idea is to lay out threats to democracy in clear language to help people be more aware of them, and to suggest solutions to combat them. Is an ancient Greek word, of course, and combines two terms: demos. Is meant to assist that.
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Stars Through the Storm: Dear Conservative
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Sunday, April 7, 2013. I'm a liberal, a progressive, some would even call me a socialist. And. I don't stay awake at night thinking of ways to take your freedom. I don't stay awake planning a war on Christmas. Or Easter, either. I don't stay awake thinking of ways to give your money to lazy people. I don't stay awake plotting how to ruin families. I don't stay awake thinking of how to drive the country into bankruptcy. I don't stay awake scheming how to corrupt the morality of college students. And I wan...
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Κείμενα δημοσιευμένα στην Κυριακάτικη ΑΥΓΗ. Ανάλυση της ελληνικής οικονομίας: η προσοδοθηρία και οι μεταρρυθμίσεις, Θ. Πελαγίδης, Μ. Μητσόπουλος. Η βόμβα του παγκόσμιου χρέους, Noreena Hertz. Η αλήθεια για τις αγορές: Γιατί λίγες χώρες είναι πλούσιες και πολλές παραμένουν φτωχές, John Kay. Πηγές ανάπτυξης: Μπορεί η Ελλάδα να ακολουθήσει το παράδειγµα της Ιρλανδίας; Συµπεράσµατα από το Συνέδριο της EFG Eurobank. Γράψτε το σχόλια σας εδώ. Δεν θα εμφανιστεί δημόσια. Ειδοποίηση μέσω mail για νέα σχόλια.
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Stars Through the Storm: Handbook for Democracy: Force
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Thursday, February 20, 2014. Handbook for Democracy: Force. This essay is an entry in the. A catalog of power techniques used by elites to exercise control and undermine the democratic self-government of the people. How should the demos oppose and counter naked force when it is used as a power technique against them? When this occurs, when checks and balances have failed, then revolution is justified to oppose force - and this has long been a part of traditional liberal democratic theory too (see John Lo...
