Aeon+Psyche
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
Vox
Imagining the nonviolent state
20+ min · · What if nonviolence wasn’t an inhuman standard demanded of the powerless, but an ethic upon which we reimagined the state? · Shared by 65, including Ezra Klein, Brad Brooks, dewang mishra, Rick Powell
The Atlantic
Trump’s El Paso Photo Is Obscene
2 min · · The president’s callousness has reached a new low: smiling, flashing a thumbs-up next to an orphaned infant. · Shared by 64, including Charles Baldwin, Rick Powell, Luisa Weiss, Trey Tweets Into the Void, Clemens M. Schuster, Jane, Scott McLeod, Dan Gillmor is at mastodon.social/@dangillmor
Aeon+Psyche
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
The Intercept
How U.S. Tech Giants Are Helping to Build China’s Surveillance State
7 min · · A nonprofit led by Google and IBM executives is working with Semptian, whose technology is monitoring the internet activity of 200 million people in China. · Shared by 47, including Rick Powell, Mark Kaigwa, Claudia Sommer, Luca Like, Charles Baldwin
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
The New York Times
I’m a Black Feminist. I Think Call-Out Culture Is Toxic.
6 min · · There are better ways of doing social justice work. · Shared by 44, including Rick Powell, danah boyd, Tiffany Shlain, M.J. Crockett, Scott Galloway, zeldman
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
Aeon+Psyche
When Chomsky met Foucault: how the thinkers debated the ‘ideal society’
2 min · · In 1971, Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault met at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands for their first and only debate. Produced by the Dutch Broadcasting Foundation as a part of… · Shared by 35, including Rick Powell, Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis, Yvette Dubel
Quillette
Misunderstanding Equality
11+ min · · If confusion between moral and empirical claims persists, we will find ourselves asked to choose between the truth and our ethical preferences. · Shared by 33, including Gabriele, Rick Powell
GEN
If You’re Angry, You’re Part of the Problem, Not the Solution
11+ min · · What we need is restraint — not rage · Shared by 33, including Ryan Holiday, 瑞拿頭, Rick Powell, Eric L. Barnes 🏝️, Justin Jackson
Aeon+Psyche
To be a responsible citizen today, it is not enough to be reasonable
5 min · · To survive society’s problems, today reasonableness isn’t enough; we need citizens to recognise beliefs have consequences · Shared by 32, including Rick Powell, Anita Leirfall, Doug Sundheim, Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine, Marylin Delgado (@marylindelgado@zirk.us)
Timothy McSweeney
Obituaries for the Recently Canceled
2 min · · Matthew Edwards, 41, was canceled early Friday evening after he was seen in his car singing along to “Remix to Ignition.” Mr. Edwards has not watch... · Shared by 32, including Vinny Lingham, Constantine Sandis, Paul Graham, Balaji, Howard Getson, Rick Powell
Aeon+Psyche
Why we love tyrants
11+ min · · Psychoanalysis explains how authoritarians energise the hatred, self-pity and delusion while promising heaven on Earth · Shared by 31, including Rick Powell
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 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