The New Yorker
What Does the Life of the Mind Do In a Crisis?
5 min · · Crises are, at least while they are happening, not educational opportunities. But there are still things to learn. · Shared by 149, including Dr Skye Cleary, Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine, Miguel Angel Escotet, Liv 😷, Christian Surchi, David V. Johnson, Jane, Rick Powell, Jason Stanley, John Danaher
Aeon+Psyche
The conversation about American torture is 400 years old
10 min · · For 400 years, Americans have argued that their violence is justified while the violence of others constitutes barbarism · Shared by 22, including Rick Powell, 🧠 Larry G. Maguire
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We can’t stand by as animals suffer and die in their billions
12+ min · · It is not enough to conserve species and ecosystems. We have an ethical duty to care for each individual animal on earth · Shared by 48, including justin caouette, Howard Getson, Anita Leirfall, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., David V. Johnson, Rick Powell, 🧠 Larry G. Maguire
Daily Stoic
Anger Management: 8 Strategies Backed By Two Thousand Years of Practice
12+ min · · For as long as there have been people, there have been people trying to get a handle on their anger problems. Below are some tried and tested strategies for taming your temper from the Stoics · Shared by 25, including Rick Powell, Ryan Holiday
Human Parts
What Hunting Can Teach Us About Life
6 min · · Hear me out: hunting isn’t what you think it is · Shared by 9, including Ryan Holiday, Rick Powell
Boston Review
Below the Asphalt Lies the Beach
14+ min · · There is still much to learn from the radical legacy of critical theory. · Shared by 6, including luis antónio santos, Rick Powell
Aeon+Psyche
Modesty is not a cranky killjoy but a way to get more from life
11+ min · · True modesty is not to be timid or meek but a way of being in the world that means you don’t get in the way of your life · Shared by 44, including Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Anita Leirfall, Rick Powell, Marylin Delgado (@marylindelgado@zirk.us), Jason Silva, Miguel Angel Escotet, 🧠 Larry G. Maguire
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What can Isaiah Berlin tell us about political freedom today?
11+ min · · One can only imagine how much nobler and more decent the world might be if it took more notice of Isaiah Berlin · Shared by 73, including 🧠 Larry G. Maguire, Rick Powell, Pascal, Marylin Delgado (@marylindelgado@zirk.us), Miguel Angel Escotet, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Andra Keay 🐳 @robotlaunch@mstdn.social, Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine, Anita Leirfall
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Is virtue signalling a perversion of morality?
5 min · · Virtue signalling has been called out for its alleged hypocrisy. But is it, in fact, a true sign of morality? · Shared by 89, including Gregg Caruso, Rick Powell, Barry C Smith, Esther Schindler, John Danaher, ExApologist, Anita Leirfall, 🧠 Larry G. Maguire, Faik Ersoy, Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine, Matteo Furia, Helen De Cruz, justin caouette, Marylin Delgado (@marylindelgado@zirk.us)
The New York Times
Dramatic Footage Shows Coach Disarming and Then Hugging Student
4 min · · A security expert said of the coach’s actions: “I think it says a lot about his character. It’s a remarkable feat.” · Shared by 16, including Pedro Noguera, Rick Powell
Aeon+Psyche
How Mengzi came up with something better than the Golden Rule
4 min · · The Golden Rule says put yourself in another’s shoes. But what if we do as Mengzi did, and just love them as our own? · Shared by 90, including Matthias Lampe, Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Guy Longworth, Anita Leirfall, Marylin Delgado (@marylindelgado@zirk.us), Pedro Noguera, Dr Skye Cleary, Liam Bright, Rick Powell, 🧠 Larry G. Maguire, Patricia Churchland
The Guardian
The myth of Eurabia: how a far-right conspiracy theory went mainstream
17+ min · · The long read: Once an obscure idea confined to the darker corners of the internet, the anti-Islam ideology is now visible in the everyday politics of the west. How did this happen? · Shared by 27, including @grzewap@mastodon.social, Rick Powell, 艾未未 Ai Weiwei, luis antónio santos
Aeon+Psyche
The meaning to life? A Darwinian existentialist has his answers
5 min · · As I near my 80th year, I have the meanings to my life, thanks to the combined powers that be of Darwin and Sartre · Shared by 20, including Rick Powell, 🧠 Larry G. Maguire, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Marylin Delgado (@marylindelgado@zirk.us)
Aeon+Psyche
Why the Jewish freethinker Ḥiwi al-Balkhi criticised the Bible
9 min · · Centuries before Spinoza, there was Ḥiwi al-Balkhi, a Jewish freethinker for whom the Bible was too irrational for faith · Shared by 28, including 🧠 Larry G. Maguire, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Rick Powell
The Baffler
Ghost in the Machine
10 min · · Edward Snowden’s memoir tracks his disillusionment not only with surveillance and the intelligence community, but the internet itself. · Shared by 8, including Rick Powell
The Guardian
This Life and Outgrowing God review – heaven, atheism and what gives life meaning
5 min · · Our lives are finite – but do we keep that in mind and spend our time well? The latest attack on religion by Richard Dawkins and Martin Hägglund’s argument for ‘secular faith’ · Shared by 36, including Rick Powell