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Is Popular Culture Really in Terminal Decline?

Decades after the truce, John Locke—whose philosophy influenced the American founding fathers more than any other—wrote about human nature as if it were an “unknowable x.” He knew that disagreements over religion (Jerusalem) and over reason (Athens) were dangerous, so he declared the question of human nature an unfathomable idea that people would... See more

EV likes to emphasise its search for “moonshot” projects – high-impact ways of changing the world. Take, for example, Recidiviz, a criminal-justice non-profit that Cowen funded. It has helped free 70,000 parole-eligible people, using data tools, who would otherwise have remained under supervision. Yet if you browse the winning projects, it becomes... See more

archive.ph • Tyler Cowen, the Man Who Wants to Know Everything

From the music clubs to the jailhouses to the fact that you can find Korean taco trucks only in white neighborhoods, L.A. is a mind-numbingly racially segregated city. But the epicenter of social apartheid is the stand-up comedy scene.

Paul Beatty • The Sellout: A Novel

The Marginalian

Steven Schlafman • 1 card

Wittgenstein was hostile to modern philosophy as he found it. He thought it the product of a culture that had come to model everything that matters about our lives on scientific explanation. In its ever-extending observance of the idea that knowledge, not wisdom, is our goal, that what matters is information rather than insight, and that we best

Ludwig Wittgenstein | Footnotes to Plato | Wittgenstein's Relentless Honesty

For Mamdani, there seems a certain visceral appeal to pushing everyone toward the lowest common denominator. Mamdani is in his element in railing against the alleged privileges of the children of largely white and Asian families... https://t.co/QWb3Xfa5TE

Jonathan Turley x.com

Rudy Giuliani Was A Creation of The New York Media

Spencer Ackerman foreverwars.ghost.io

“His trip reports betray a theme, in photo after photo entirely devoid of human companionship: empty lounges, first-class menus, embroidered satin pillows—inanimate totems of a five-star existence.” But he’s winning.