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We are against consensus. // An ideas collective and debate platform co-founded by @shadihamid and @dmarusic.
You can just say things. @xsantiagoramos responds to @tylercowen's recent piece in @TheFP about the AI-human "complex symbiosis" Subscribe to read! wisdomofcrowds.live/p/you-can-just…
I mean i side with David Brooks on this, but like I’m also just generally inclined toward the social/communal tbh
What is happines? asks @sckimbriel "Activity done for its own sake" -- Adam Sandel ( @Harvard_Press) "Not sure, but live for the search til you find it" ( @AgnesCallard) "Intensity and friendship" ( @nytdavidbrooks) Subscribe to listen to their whole debate👉…
What is happines? asks @sckimbriel "Activity done for its own sake" -- Adam Sandel ( @Harvard_Press) "Not sure, but live for the search til you find it" ( @AgnesCallard) "Intensity and friendship" ( @nytdavidbrooks) Subscribe to listen to their whole debate👉…
gloves off about happiness...
🛜 Podcast this week! @sckimbriel talks about the philosophy and politics of happiness with @AgnesCallard, @nytdavidbrooks & Adam Sandel ( @Harvard_Press)! Subscribe to listen! wisdomofcrowds.live/p/what-is-happ…
"we are not really capable of thinking for ourselves" @AgnesCallard "we all have blind spots" pair with "Much of individualism is a diabolically bad empirical description of humans" To flesh out my case against Cartesian individualism… sublationmedia.com/the-buddha-wou…
🛜 Podcast this week! @sckimbriel talks about the philosophy and politics of happiness with @AgnesCallard, @nytdavidbrooks & Adam Sandel ( @Harvard_Press)! Subscribe to listen! wisdomofcrowds.live/p/what-is-happ…
🛜 Podcast this week! @sckimbriel talks about the philosophy and politics of happiness with @AgnesCallard, @nytdavidbrooks & Adam Sandel ( @Harvard_Press)! Subscribe to listen! wisdomofcrowds.live/p/what-is-happ…
If you could disaggregate American muslim opinion how often would you find an acceptance of Israel’s right to exist and assuming answer ‘no’ how would this correlate to general feelings regarding liberalism, American greatness and love of the constitution and capitalism etc?
when your endowment is over ten billion but you feel like doing a thing
The Division of the Arts & Humanities is considering consolidating its 15 departments into eight, reducing language instruction, and establishing minimum class and program sizes, citing new federal policies and shifts in the “underlying financial models” for higher education.
EXCELLENT survey of great books issues from the finest @xsantiagoramos
CrowdSource this week! THE GREAT BOOKS 📚 ➡️ The End of Tulsa Honors (@jennfrey) ➡️ Canon Controversies (@zenahitz, @scholars_stage, Anika Prather, Dan-El Padilla, @rooseveltmontas) ➡️ "A Different Order" (@chezaristote, Thomas Merton, Mark van Doren) ➡️ Alternatives…
the great books! background and controversy recap
CrowdSource this week! THE GREAT BOOKS 📚 ➡️ The End of Tulsa Honors (@jennfrey) ➡️ Canon Controversies (@zenahitz, @scholars_stage, Anika Prather, Dan-El Padilla, @rooseveltmontas) ➡️ "A Different Order" (@chezaristote, Thomas Merton, Mark van Doren) ➡️ Alternatives…
CrowdSource this week! THE GREAT BOOKS 📚 ➡️ The End of Tulsa Honors (@jennfrey) ➡️ Canon Controversies (@zenahitz, @scholars_stage, Anika Prather, Dan-El Padilla, @rooseveltmontas) ➡️ "A Different Order" (@chezaristote, Thomas Merton, Mark van Doren) ➡️ Alternatives…
For top colleges caving to Trump, the overwhelming majority of Muslims are effectively suspect, since the overwhelming majority of Muslims in America support the Palestinian cause, as I discuss in my new @wcrowdslive essay. wisdomofcrowds.live/p/a-particular…
"this is what writers dream of" @Paul_R_Elie "to be in a conversation at this level about one's own book"
We are not completely beholden to cultural trends. Artists can emerge out of nowhere and beat decadence. So argues @Paul_R_Elie in our latest podcast (w/ @dmarusic & @xsantiagoramos)
Read my full @WCrowdsLive essay here: wisdomofcrowds.live/p/a-particular…
CrowdSource this week! x.com/WCrowdsLive/st…
CrowdSource this week: The Future & the End The Future v. the Past ( @leonardbenardo1, Ivan Krastev, Giorgio Agamben, @davidzmorris) The Future & the AntiChrist (Peter Thiel, @lwoodhouse, @mattiaferraresi) The End of the World ( @xsantiagoramos, @TheAnnaGat) CHILDREN OF MEN…
In my new @wcrowdslive essay, I reflect on a particular kind of American despair. Things are looking bad, largely because they are. But that's not the end of the story. wisdomofcrowds.live/p/a-particular…
I read the news today. Although I’ve been trying my best not to. I’ve been on a two-month book leave, which is about to end. I’m trying to get back into things. When I do, I sometimes feel a rush of blood to the head. It’s physical. 🧵