Psychologists Shouldn’t Ignore the Soul
Percy, I’d imagine, would have found much resonance in this article. David H. RosmarinGodPsychologyReligion & SpiritualitySigmund FreudsoulWalker Percy
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NOLA CDs of the year
My list of the year’s best releases associated with New Orleans and Louisiana. See Red — Deltaphonic Hot Like Fire — Bonerama Seasonal Affective Disorder — Loose Cattle Live in Concert — The First Revolution Singers boneramacountry and westernDeltaphonicfunkgospelloose cattlethe first revolution singers
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NOTES FOR A NOVEL ABOUT THE END OF THE WORLD A SERIOUS NOVEL about the destruction of the United States and the end of the world should perform the function of prophecy in reverse. The novelist writes about the coming end in order to warn about present ills and so avert the end. Not being…
Henry David Thoreau on Spontaneous Order and its Enemies
New Thomas Peyser article in Mosaic: an interdisciplinary critical journal Henry David Thoreauspontaneous ordersThomas Peyser
99 not out
Happy birthday to Dave Bartholomew. Also on this day, Lee Dorsey. Dave BartholomewFats DominoLee Dorseymusicnew orleansthe big beattrumpet
All the lonely people
The Philanthropic Enterprise has curated several articles on the topic of loneliness, something that tends to get heightened at this time of year. BeatleslonelinessPhilanthropy
Stax Rarities: more goodies from Soulsville USA
I guess a must-have from the vaults for Stax aficionados. musicsoulStax
Conservatism and Common-Sense Realism
For a limited time OUP have made freely available several articles from across their small catalogue of philosophy journals, one of which is by the very excellent Kristóf Nyíri in The Monist. ConservatismKristóf NyíriLudwig WittgensteinPhilosophyrealism
Understanding Cryptocurrencies with Stigmergy
This from Alexander Blum writing in the HuffPost. We already have markets, the republic of science (Polanyi), urban design (Jacobs) and much more besides, spontaneous orders that embody these worthy stygmergic [sic] virtues (quote below). Writing a decade or so ago, the downside then expressed was that there runs the risk of ‘‘a kind of…
Derek Parfit, photographer
I knew that Parfit was a keen photographer with a great eye at least from the cover of Reasons and Persons, but here are many that have remained unseen by most until now. Luchino Visconti would have approved. Derek ParfitethicsLuchino Viscontipersonal identityphotography
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