Thursday, January 28, 2021

… Is America's Golden Age Over? How Can We Restore American Greatness?

Is America's Golden Age Over? How Can We Restore American Greatness? | The Stream

...free societies are much more creative. One statistic I cite in my book is this: Switzerland with its eight million people has produced 25 Nobel Prize winners in science, including Einstein. The People’s Republic of China with its 1.3 billion has produced just one. That’s not a racial thing. Scientists of Chinese extraction have won Nobels in the United States, Canada and France.

“What’s Wrong With Your Cat?” Online Group Has Owners Posting Pics Of Their Malfunctioning Cats Bored Panda 

 

This Elaborately Armored Samurai Was Folded From A Single Sheet of Paper This Colossal

 

The best photography of 2020 New Atlas 

 

Astronomers edge closer to detecting background “sea” of gravitational waves Astronom

 

Nepali climbers make history with winter summit of K2 mountain BBC 

 

Galway turf cutters turn environmental protectors in bid to preserve bogs Irish Times 

 

America on a new fast track to fusion energy Asia Times


It Looks Like the Rich Aren’t Abandoning New York After All New York Magazine

 

Swedish Millionaires on the Rise Put Finance Minister on Edge Bloomberg

 

Back from the Afterlife The Baffler


The wisdom of surrender Aeon. On Samuel Beckett


 

The Problem with Technosolutionism American Conservative. 


The Fascinating Second Lives of Stuff American Conservative 

 

Why the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Oil Lease Sale Flopped Backpacker

 

Newly-identified nutrient helps the gut recall prior infections and kill invading bacteria News Medical Life Sciences. What kind of article is this??? Doesn’t even say taurine is an amino acid. It’s an essential amino acid for cats, fer Chrissakes.


A philosophical framework for political hope — Joe Biden’s inauguration speech and David Estlund’s (Brown) critiques of “utopophobia”


“Moral knowledge can be acquired in any of the ways in which we acquire ordinary empirical knowledge” — a discussion of Sarah McGrath’s (Princeton) book defending this idea


“The aim of transitional justice is to fundamentally alter the basic terms of interaction, both horizontally among citizens and vertically between citizens and officials” — Colleen Murphy (Illinois) on the hard work of following through on calls for “unity”


The professor of an online course currently running has been dead for over a year — and no one bothered to inform the students


“In some standard Gettier cases, if you reason probabilistically, it is possible to know” — Alexander Pruss (Baylor) makes the case


“Philosophy can’t be so racist that one will just be stonewalled if one draws from traditions associated with low status minority groups… But…” — Liam Kofi Bright (LSE) on why philosophers “leave credit on the table


Among those plagiarized were Elizabeth Anscombe, Marilyn McCord Adams, Robert Pasnau, Tad Schmalz… — an update on the Roques plagiarism case