Paul Schofield
@pschofie79
Teaches Philosophy at Bates College. Ethics, Politics, Film. Author of DUTY TO SELF (OUP, 2021). Arguing *philosophically* that homelessness is BAD
I'm going to make a thread with my writing about homelessnes and housing, which I'll pin to my profile and add to over time. This one argues that having housing shouldn't be contingent on having a job or getting sober. Housing should be guaranteed. blog.apaonline.org/2022/04/18/the…
I can’t be the only one who clicked on that “The Trouble With Wanting Men” NY Times article and eventually went “hey wait, how long is this thing?” and then quit.
People are so obsessed with living in "The City" that they would literally give up their first born son rather than move.
People are so obsessed with living in "The City" that they would literally give up their first born son rather than move.
At Applebee’s you can get a chicken salad for $13.59, and on Tuesdays you can get a kid’s meal for $1.99 with the purchase of an adult entree. So with tax and tip, maybe $21 total. Maybe the answer is that they get by in this economy by going to Applebee’s on Tuesdays.
Took my daughter out to dinner tonight. She got a hamburger and chicken fingers off the kids menu. I got a grilled chicken salad. Including tax and tip, $63.90 How are people surviving in this economy?
It’s been a time since Lorne Michaels then on SNL three had the sort of success 2025
🚨 Lorne Michaels officially has is now one Saturday Night Live two ratings NBC of on broadcast television!
One time, a tech entrepreneur I know dismissed the entire concept of free will with one simple declaration, and I still love him for it. “Neurons.”
A thing that’s worked well for me: When I teach Kant, I have students read only AI summaries of his work. I then ask them to write a fully worked out version of the summary, and then when it isn’t as good at the Critique of Pure Reason, I fail them.
Oh, a physicist dismissed the entire field of philosophy with a quip, you say???
A lot of high-IQ individuals rediscovered this tweet this week and have been replying with high-IQ commentary.
Is “the average IQ in Somalia is 68” the sort of thing a high-IQ individual believes?
Look, whatever your CEO and head of HR want to do together in public is a private matter just between them.
Are there conspiracy theories yet about how there were so many people at the concert, there’s no way this wasn’t a setup? Because if not, I think that could be fun.
What are they thinking here? I think he’s thinking: “I have everything I’ve ever wanted and have paid no consequences ever. I’m on top of the world.”
What are they thinking here? I think she’s thinking “Ohhhh. Coldplay.”
Horrible. Also probably what I’d say if you gave me .8 seconds to answer.
A movie based on the day leading up to the Coldplay concert, ending with the Jumbotron scene.