I believe Parsons and New School merged in 1970. I wonder if anyone then foresaw that it would effectively spell the end of academic freedom at new school down the (rather long) road.
Digressionsimpressions
@nescio13.bsky.social
Philosopher who got a gig as political theorist at University of Amsterdam; also known as Ghent Zeppelin. I have a daily substack: https://digressionsimpressions.substack.com/publish
'a sober institutional arrangement with good mores allow disorder to become information. This is central to the Machiavellian art of government.'
DDigressionsimpressions@nescio13.bsky.social · 4h ago
Rousseau's significance to the Liberal Art of Government (with shout outs to Foucault, Smith, and @aoprea.bsky.social ) open.substack.com/pub/digressi...
Rousseau's significance to the Liberal Art of Government (with shout outs to Foucault, Smith, and @aoprea.bsky.social ) open.substack.com/pub/digressi...
Rousseau's significance to the Liberal Art of Government (with shout outs to Foucault, Smith, and Oprea)
In understanding the origins of Machiavellian liberalism, and its art of government, my most important scholarly debt is to Michel Foucault’s Collège de France lectures of the late 1970s.
open.substack.com
If Ai solves all outstanding philosophy problems, I can focus 100% on my digressionsimpressions
BTW. If AI solves the hard problem will that be good for philosophy, or bad news?
Glad someone senior from the sector is pushing back. Labour MPs need to understand the serious real anger from graduates and the people who produce them. And the dangerous financial situation they have allowed to fester, or indeed worsened, in one of Britain’s leading sectors.
Labour has harmed universities as much as Trump, London School of Economics head says
LSE vice-chancellor Larry Kramer points to domestic student fees freeze, international student limits and rise in employers’ national insurance
ft.com
It would be funny if falsification would become super easy with the new AI tools. And Popper would be the godfather of the new era.
On Open Socrates, pt. 4: Olberding, Dracula's Lament, and Tolstoy's Problem open.substack.com/pub/digressi...
On Open Socrates, pt. 4: Olberding, Dracula's Lament, and Tolstoy's Problem
In the Fall of 1994, I was working at a market research firm in Boston.
open.substack.com
I am editing a special issue of EJPE on Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations at 250, and the first article by the great Maria Carrasco of the issue has been published, "Subsidiarity and Solidarity in Adam Smith’s Free Society" (abstract in picture.) doi.org/10.23941/ejp...
On Open Socrates, pt. 4: Olberding, Dracula's Lament, and Tolstoy's Problem open.substack.com/pub/digressi...
On Open Socrates, pt. 4: Olberding, Dracula's Lament, and Tolstoy's Problem
In the Fall of 1994, I was working at a market research firm in Boston.
open.substack.com
Some avocados are female in the morning and male in the afternoon, while others are on the opposite schedule. This helps them avoid self-pollination. How do they do it? A @ucdavis.bsky.social study explains. www.ucdavis.edu/food/news/st...
Study Reveals How Avocados Reverse Sexes Throughout the Day
Some avocados are female in the morning and male in the afternoon, while others are on the opposite schedule. How avocados do this has been unclear — until now, thanks to a UC Davis study.
ucdavis.edu
Full essay here: digressionsnimpressions.wordpress.com/2022/01/19/m...
Michael Polanyi on the collapse of liberalism and the Rise of Fascism: Religion and Liberty
Anglo-American liberalism was first formulated by Milton and Locke. Their argument for freedom of thought was twofold. In its first part (for which we may quote the Areopagitica) freedom from autho…
digressionsnimpressions.wordpress.com
Sharon 🪳🌹@sharonk.bsky.social · last yr.oof
That fifa can make uefa seem to have any principles is quite an achievement.
On Open Socrates, pt. 3: From Adam Smith to Alcibiades open.substack.com/pub/digressi...
On Open Socrates, pt. 3: From Adam Smith to Alcibiades
The main inspiration of Agnes Callard’s (2025) Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life. (W.W. Norton) is the Socrates depicted in a sub-set of Plato’s writings. In the previous two posts on t...
open.substack.com
The philosophy of waiting in line. Einstein & philosophy. The epistemology of inquiry. Socrates, Smith, ambition, and equality. Risks of comparative philosophy. AI & understanding the past. Eleanore Stump on her philosophy & life...
Mini Heap - Daily Nous
Items of interest elsewhere... “Du Bois is read as the Black Hegel, and Fanon as a Black Sartre… [but] turning non-Western thinkers into tame versions of ourselves is a kind of intellectual colonialis...
dailynous.com
It's underreported how funny The Death of Ivan Ilyich is. #lookingatuAmy
On Open Socrates, pt. 3: From Adam Smith to Alcibiades open.substack.com/pub/digressi...
On Open Socrates, pt. 3: From Adam Smith to Alcibiades
The main inspiration of Agnes Callard’s (2025) Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life. (W.W. Norton) is the Socrates depicted in a sub-set of Plato’s writings. In the previous two posts on t...
open.substack.com
I think Joe Heath should replace Ross Douthat at NYT. I will be no less irritated.
On Open Socrates, pt 1: The Missing Daimonion open.substack.com/pub/digressi... shout outs to @sophisteuein.bsky.social @cdutilhnovaes.bsky.social @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
On Open Socrates, pt 1: The Missing Daimonion
Plato’s dialogues are the exclusive source for the Socrates you will encounter in this book, just as they are the starting point for most of the philosophizing done in Socrates’ wake.
open.substack.com
A few days left for our call for papers on Philosophy through Art, Games and Fiction, dedicated to Helen De Cruz think.taylorandfranc... I am convinced that being playful and creative makes us better philosophers. Prove me right! #philsky #philosophy
Philosophy through Art, Games, and Fiction
Can we do philosophy by writing fiction, drawing, designing a game, or telling a story? Submit work to this special issue honouring the legacy of Helen De Cruz.
think.taylorandfrancis.com
Just when everybody's talking about Odysseus, our old contrarian friend decides it's time to weigh in on Socrates.
"So, in Callard’s account of Socratic inquiry, there is a functional division of labor in a win-win cooperative enterprise. The real challenge for Socrates and his followers is to get others to recognize this cooperative feature and play along." my criticisms of Callard aside, I think this is right
DDigressionsimpressions@nescio13.bsky.social · last wk.
On Open Socrates, pt 1: The Missing Daimonion open.substack.com/pub/digressi... shout outs to @sophisteuein.bsky.social @cdutilhnovaes.bsky.social @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
On Open Socrates, pt 1: The Missing Daimonion open.substack.com/pub/digressi... shout outs to @sophisteuein.bsky.social @cdutilhnovaes.bsky.social @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
On Open Socrates, pt 1: The Missing Daimonion
Plato’s dialogues are the exclusive source for the Socrates you will encounter in this book, just as they are the starting point for most of the philosophizing done in Socrates’ wake.
open.substack.com
Is Neal Stephenson's Anathem worth the opportunity costs? One word responses fine. More also welcome.