Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
~ Gertrude Stein
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Monthly Archives: August 2024
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Empires are synonymous with centralized — if occasionally schismatized — hierarchical power structures in which influence is restricted to an economically privileged class retaining its advantages through — usually — a judicious use of oppression and skilled manipulation of both the society’s information dissemination systems and its lesser — as a rule nominally independent — power systems. In short, it’s all about dominance.
~ Iain Banks
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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
~ T.S. Eliot
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Midday Music Fix
Heart – Crazy On You (1977) • TopPop
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The forerunners of the modern lobbyist were Tommy “The Cork” Corcoran, a member of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s brain trust, and Clark Clifford, who ran President Harry Truman’s poker games.
~ Franklin Foer via The Atlantic
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The Bible is literature, not dogma.
~ George Santayana
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Learning Object
Jonathan Haidt | Equality of Input vs Equality of Outcome
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Campus Life at the
University of Aberdeen
Campus Life at
Tsinghua University
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Self-government makes high demands of its citizens. Today’s students will be called to lead in a complicated world where not everyone will agree, where trade-offs will be necessary, where basic values inform the work of navigating complex realities. The current illiberal climate on campuses is the kind of tragedy that could doom a republic. We cannot let that happen.
~ Ben Sasse via The Atlantic
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