Philosophy Prof @ Boston College. I interview philosophers working outside the academy, let them tell their stories, and share the secrets to their success.
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David Edward Storey retweeted
In case you’re keeping score, Things that died this week:
The Republican majority
JD Vance’s political future
Election denialism
A Red Texas
Russell Brand’s freedom
Laura Loomer’s podcast
Trump on the ballot
LIV golf
Mike Johnson’s relevance
NY 21’s dignity
Katie Miller’s voting ability
The “manosphere”
Cyber trucks
Susie Wiles’s NDA
MAGA influencers’ Iran war support
“Total immunity”
Pete Hegseth’s sobriety
Mid-census redistricting
Elon’s $500 million
Vivek Ramaswamy’s concession call
TPUSA
Susan Collins’ “concerns”
But don’t worry…it’s nothing Stephen Miller can’t solve.
David Edward Storey retweeted
Soon there will be stronger Christian left leadership in Congress than Christian right. Better communicators, at minimum. The Christian right is headless and discredited. The alliance with Trump has doomed them.
David Edward Storey retweeted
Key lesson from all this. You can get away with being cruel, or incompetent, or cringe some of the time. But not all three all of the time.
David Edward Storey retweeted
Ezra Klein has this theory that if you win at Twitter in year n, then you will lose the national election n+4 years later.
David Edward Storey retweeted
Obama tonight on his Cheesecake Factory line: "They mobilized a whole of government response to that joke. Not to inflation, but to that joke. The White House even called the Secretary of the Treasury. This is the man who is in charge of the economy. The person who's supposed to be figuring out how to make your life more affordable. The guy who's supposed to be figuring out how to lower inflation. And reduce interest rates. They told him he should hold a press conference in front of the Cheesecake Factory."
“Trend: how books with a single word in the title and long subtitles that consist of recent social scientific research giving empirical support to common sense sandwiched between attention grabbing anecdotes at the start of each chapter become bestsellers.”
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David Edward Storey retweeted
In America you can watch a firing squad, but can't watch Stephen Colbert.
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Thumos without reason is madness; reason without thumos is feckless. Better to be feckless than mad.
Unfortunately, Rubio has chosen to be both feckless and mad.
David Edward Storey retweeted
Rubio finding out he has to become a Straussian and teach a year-long close exegesis of Plato's Republic.
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The whole point of Greek philosophy is that thymos that is not harnessed and steered by reason leads to calamity. THAT is the difference between Odysseus and Achilles, and the heart of Western civilization. And Trump is the antithesis of this.
SECRETARY RUBIO: This thumos, as the Ancient Greeks called it - the fire of passion, strength, courage, pride - is the heart of great civilization. Without it, nations lose their will to fight, to strive, to survive.
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So if Rubio is the nominee, Pete’s height doesn’t matter. That’s a huge unlock. I’ve always thought his height was more of a problem than his sexual orientation.
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This take on the Odyssey correctly cuts through the culture war cant about the film. I refrain from using the Scylla and Charibdis metaphor…
Obviously supposed to have contemporary resonance in terms of breakdown of international order. But I didn’t feel it was liberal-dogmatic. One could have conservative, liberal or postliberal understandings of that. Collapse of the common good on a global scale.
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