Check out this excellent docu on Lao Zi founder of Taoism (or maybe that was the Yellow Emperor?) by @bryanvannorden.bsky.social youtu.be/lvglQJDrgJI?...

Wisdom of China: Laozi

YouTube video by Bryan Van Norden

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Just a reminder that the documentary I hosted, "Wisdom of China: Laozi," is available for free on YouTube, in case you want to assign or recommend it in your classes this upcoming semester! youtu.be/lvglQJDrgJI?...

Wisdom of China: Laozi

YouTube video by Bryan Van Norden

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Scrying Is More Common than You Thought, by @BryanVanNorden substack.com/@bryanwvanno...

Scrying Is More Common than You Thought

And, no, I don’t mean scream-crying.

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I was not involved in this hand at RW Catskills, but hands were JJ, QQ, KK, AA, with two all-ins preflop, and two more all-ins on the turn. AA won a small side pot, and KK took the main pot for a near triple-up. 😮

Coming up in a few hours on #HoPWaG: Karyn and I speak to Bryan Van Norden, one of the most prominent and eloquent interpreters of Chinese philosophy! We ask him, among other things, how should we convince skeptics to make the effort to investigate non-European philosophical traditions?

To celebrate reaching fifty episodes in this series, Karyn Lai and Peter Adamson of the @histphilosophy.bsky.social podcast chat with a leading scholar of Chinese philosophy, Bryan W. Van Norden about Confucianism, Mohism, and Daoism. www.historyofphilosophy.net/warring-stat...

Played $1/$3 NLHE poker at Resorts World Catskills tonight. In for $600, out for $1198.

Played $1/$3 NLHE poker last night at @RWCatskills. In for $507, out for $820. Took a brief break for dumpling soup with udon noodles at Good Friends Market.

I went to the poker room at Resorts World Catskills on Friday. Played $1/$3 NLHE. Bought in for $302, cashed out for $1207. 😎 My dog Diego was, once again, fascinated by my hand histories.

Love the new poker room at Resorts World Catskills, and not just because last night I bought in for $311 and cashed out for $812. My dog Diego was very interested in my poker stories.

For fans of "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia."

Every accusation is a confession with them.

Currently reading this. It was rushed into print because Giuffre's book was coming out, so there are lots of formatting errors, like footnotes in the middle of a page, and what should be block quotes set as ordinary text. But the content is interesting. 1/

“A coup is happening in the United States.” Jason Stanley, author of How Fascism Works, argues that President Donald Trump is leading an unlawful takeover of the US government.

I study fascism. I’ve already fled America.

On this week’s “More To The Story,” former Yale philosophy professor Jason Stanley explains his recent move to Canada and calls the Trump administration’s takeover of the US government a “coup.”

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There are caves, and then there are caves that go darker

Bryan W. Van Norden@bryanvannorden.bsky.social · 8mo ago

What's one difference between the US and China? You can teach Plato in China.

What's one difference between the US and China? You can teach Plato in China.

I applied for a position in the Trump administration. This is my headshot.

People were sucking up to Trump so much, he had to take 4 naps during his cabinet meeting

It feels so on the nose that Stephen Miller is such an obviously creepy loser and he also has this politics. The least subtle morality play about racists basically entirely accurately characterises the sorta people they are.

John Q. Public@publius24.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization

The bilingual version of the documentary I hosted, "Wisdom of China: Laozi," is now available. Feel free to use it in your classes, and please like and comment on the video to help promote it. youtu.be/lvglQJDrgJI?...

Wisdom of China: Laozi

YouTube video by Bryan Van Norden

youtu.be

Here’s a good introduction to Daoism with some fun contemporary applications. Great work from @bryanvannorden.bsky.social youtu.be/lvglQJDrgJI

Wisdom of China: Laozi

YouTube video by Bryan Van Norden

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I really enjoyed this video about Laozi youtu.be/lvglQJDrgJI?... made by @bryanvannorden.bsky.social Looking forward to the rest of the series

Wisdom of China: Laozi

YouTube video by Bryan Van Norden

youtu.be

The bilingual version of the documentary I hosted, "Wisdom of China: Laozi," is now available. Feel free to use it in your classes, and please like and comment on the video to help promote it. youtu.be/lvglQJDrgJI?...

Wisdom of China: Laozi

YouTube video by Bryan Van Norden

youtu.be

Nero fiddled while Rome burned.

Q: My condolences on the loss of your friend Charlie Kirk. How are you holding up? TRUMP: I think very good. And by the way, right there you see all the trucks. They just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they've been trying to get for about 150 years.

Donald Trump: “smart people don’t like me”

Bryan, I enjoyed today’s substack video post “The Rest Understand the West Better... ...than the West Understands the Rest.” I wish I had taken more Philosophy at Vassar than the one class I had with Jesse Kalin.

Bryan W. Van Norden@bryanvannorden.bsky.social · last yr.

Bryan Van Norden, "The Rest Understands the West Better than the West Understands the Rest," United Nations Pre Summit of the Future, 22 September 2024 vassar.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Page...