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Anna B
truth is a problem now for everyone, if the idea seems empty or useless in ‘the era of social media’, ‘science denialism’, ‘conspiracy theories’ and suchlike, maybe that just means that ‘everyone’ has caught up to where philosophy was in 1922.
Crispin Sartwell • Truth Is Real and Philosophers Must Return Their Attention to It
It may well be the sentence that for diverse reasons—because thinking about Woolf, or sickness, or essays, because trying to emulate a certain rhythm in my own writing—I’ve copied out by hand more than any other.
Brian Dillon • On a Wonderful, Beautiful, Almost Failed Sentence By Virginia Woolf
It is the highest thing. Jesus agrees, proclaiming himself at John 14:6 to be the way, the truth and the life.
Crispin Sartwell • Truth Is Real and Philosophers Must Return Their Attention to It
Too Late The Truth
Haki R. Madhubuti
who quieted the fourth estate,
took words, images, and liberating ideas
from the recently comatosed and stole the nation?
why was there not a storm among us
confronting the wealth of ignorance?
what is the price of deceptive and enriched silence?
who compromised the music of truth,
the poetry of deep thought?
what of
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“Anyone who tells you there are universal rules to how to add an apostrophe ending in S is either wrong or lying,” Jeffrey Barg, a grammar columnist, said. “You can’t be wrong as long as you’re consistent.”
Ben Hickey • Is It Harris’ or Harris’s? Add a Walz, and It’s Even Trickier.
“Considering how common illness is, how tremendous the spiritual change that it brings, how astonishing, when the lights of health go down, the undiscovered countries that are then disclosed, what wastes and deserts of the soul a slight attack of influenza brings to light, what precipices and lawns sprinkled with bright flowers a little rise of
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