Morning Ed: Society {2016.10.25.T}
Beware the black-eyed. And robots, definitely the robots. And the stalkerish UConn Huskies. But not Winnie the Poo.
Monthly Archive: October 2016
Have Millennials Really Been Screwed Over by Baby Boomers?
In the wake of Brexit, many Millennials blamed Baby Boomers for ruining their futures. Is the same true in the U.S.?
WaPo: ‘Please reelect Gerald’ is the political ad we all needed
From: ‘Please reelect Gerald’ is the political ad we all needed – The Washington Post
Saturday!
On the game that Maribou renamed “Please don’t play this or I will lose my saved game!” only without spaces or punctuation.
YouTube: 2013 Republicans for Black Empowerment Black Conservative gathering w/ J.C. Watts
From: Republicans for Black Empowerment Black Conservative gathering w/ J.C. Watts – YouTube
The MMA of Electoral Fraud
An intellectual experiment. Let’s play the role of electoral fraudster. Come, and conspire for a moment, and let us see whether we might realize benefit from subverting the integrity of American democracy.
…And whether we’ve now been presented with evidence that this is actually happening.
Empiricism v. Principle
Smaller government can’t be the sine qua non of the politics of freedom in a Wagner’s Law world.
Gary Saul Morson: Can Reading Literature Make Us Moral?
Literature has a way of lifting us out of points of view that we take for granted. When we read The Iliad, the Tao Te Ching, Gilgamesh, Genesis, Paradise Lost, or Crime and Punishment,...
The End of Dissent: A Study in Group Radicalization
When a previously mainstream group radicalizes, it’s worth considering how they got there.
