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
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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
Walker Percy Wednesday 164
A man riding a train may incarnate alienation (the commuter) or rotation (i. e., the English variety: “I was taking a long-delayed holiday. In the same compartment and directly opposite me, I noticed a young woman who seemed to be in some sort of distress. To my astonishment she beckoned to me. I had planned…
Patron saint of Jazz Fest
Professor Longhair — Bogalusa baby born on this day. boogie woogieJazzjazz Festnew orleanspianoprofessor longhairTipitina
Regressive Blindspot
Does this not in the clearest of terms reveal the regressive blindspot? — especially the IYIs. (Well, ok there is the co-chair of the Woman’s March followed by pussy-hatted sheepzoids). “DC Transit Cop’s Trial Details Ties Between Neo-Nazis and Islamist Terrorism“. islamliberalityNazismregressive left
Hayek’s Constitution of Liberty—a guarded retrospective
Richard Epstein in The Review of Austrian Economics, December 2017, Volume 30, Issue 4, pp 415–446. Austrian EconomicsConstitution of LibertyFriedrich Hayekphilosophical jurisprudenceRichard Epstein
The Mystery of Finlaggan
Always partial to an Islay, I tried this for the first time and it fared very much better than a Lagavulin 8 200th Anniversary Edition. The general consensus seems to be that price-wise this Islay offers a really big bang for the buck. Here are two assessments of it. alcoholFinlaggangastronomyIslaysingle malt
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