A modern liberal is someone who doesn't care what you do, as long as it's compulsory.
— M. Stanton Evans, who died in 2015
You have absolutely no idea how much you have done for everyone around you. All the smiles and laughs you have wholeheartedly shared with everyone truly is a reason to thank you.
Every story deserves a great prince/princess. Moreover, in the story of our lives, you have been the best royalty we could have ever hoped to have!
Now that you’re 21, I’m going to start coming to you for advice. And money. Happy Birthday!
Some people look old and feel young. Some people seem young and feel old. Some people like us look young and feel young. Feels good to party on your Monday night birthday, doesn’t it?
May the good things that happened to you last year become the worst things that will happen to you this year. Here’s to an even bigger year for you.
Monday musings on Australian literature: Commonwealth Writers Prize (now defunct)
March 8 this year is a packed one. Of course, it is always International Women’s Day, but the second Monday in March is also Canberra Day here in the ACT, Labour Day in Victoria, and Commonwealth Day in, yes, the Commonwealth. It is not a public holiday in most places, but I decided it could inspire this week’s Monday Musings
How women have shaped philosophy: nine female philosophers our authors admire | OUPblog
I have long been an admirer of Hannah Arendt. I haven’t thought of Emily Dickinson as a philosopher, but I see the point.
Measuring Colonial Extraction: The East India Company’s Rule and the Drain of Wealth (1757–1858) (PDF) Capitalism: A Journal of History and Economics. The whole issue is free. It’s pretty impressive.
Transparent wood is coming, and it could make an energy-efficient alternative to glass The Conversation
Are Declassed Professionals in the United States like Surplus Song Dynasty Civil Servants? Benjamin Studebaker
Gig companies prepare to bring their fight for independent work nationwide under a more skeptical Biden administration CNBC. “Independent work” my Sweet Aunt Fanny
9-year-old girl cries to virtual class that she’s ‘starving,’ local food bank steps in Today. Reading between the lines, complex eligibility requirements are doing their job.
Measuring Household Distress and Potential Policy Impacts Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis
How the automation economy can turn human workers into robots Axios
The Mars Helicopter is Online and Getting Ready to Fly Universe Today
Scientists Talked To People In Their Dreams. They Answered NPR
“Students are somewhat less accustomed to speaking up or challenging received wisdom, and less comfortable pushing ‘why’ questions” — Natalja Deng (Yonsei University) on what it’s like to work as a philosopher in South Korea
“The idea of ‘cultural appropriation’ is directly antithetical to all the work that cross-cultural philosophers have done so hard to get accepted” — cultural appropriation is objectionable only “when a culture’s ability to use a cultural product is actually taken away from it,” argues Amod Lele (Boston University)
“True diversification of the field will ultimately require aesthetic integration, the blending of more than one aesthetic approach to create something new that appeals to a diverse constituency” — Chris Jenkins (Oberlin) on classical music, aesthetics, and race
Epoché, a monthly philosophy magazine, has a new website — while you’re there, check out the Index page, a book-like index to their entire run
“Calling all philosophers!… The superhero we need, in a divided America, is someone who can prove to us what’s real and what isn’t” — a writer interviews several philosophers for a newpaper column on the nature and importance of reality
Puzzles in chemistry, and how philosophy helps solve them — a modest shout-out to philosophy at Chemistry World
Jesus saves. But what saves Jesus? One answer: non-classical logic — Jc Beall (Notre Dame) in a brief introductory video on the reasons for (against?) adopting non-classical logic
