Any theory of American politics that doesn't start with the instinct to throw the bums out badly misses the mark

From recent events, why would they need to make the trains run on time rather than simply lying and saying they did?

How would wearing a mask prevent an assault?

For my non-Utah friends, this is kind of a big deal. The Desert News is an LDS-oriented paper. Hope springs eternal.

It's the entire game.

The Greeks absolutely had it right when they included a chorus in their plays. They knew audiences are dumbasses who need to be told “THIS MAN IS BAD. HE IS HERE AS AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT *NOT* TO DO. WOE TO THE BUMPTIOUS FOOL WHO WOULD IDOLIZE HIM. YOU ARE NOT, NOR DO YOU WANT TO BE, ALEX DELARGE”

At my institution, the faculty senate executive committee has seven women (of nine members), five who are also simultaneously department chairs.

I must be missing something because the UCLA prof with the AI textbook is... not using it to replace TAs or de-skill the class or using it so she doesn't have to teach.

Yes! This story needs to be told. Dumping of history majors is incredibly short sighted. When administrators do this, they're revealing their ignorance of the discipline and its value across careers.

Is there anyone that I know what would be interested in proposing a pannel with me for the 2025 ASA in Baltimore on the aesthetics of concerts and music fests? I think the paper that I'm working on about fests is going to be too long to send in as a paper...lol

"the coup started and was over by morning coffee" is not something that I'd expect would have a democratic resolution

Fascinating piece by @cherylmisak.bsky.social . I had no idea about the efforts of these brave philosophers. aeon.co/essays/how-a...

Roses are redde Noble are the manatees Yf we wante a bettir future Teach artes & humanityes

Successfully got the kids to refer to my purse as the Bag of Holding

Yräm, a braided floor mat

@thisishannahkim.bsky.social The Neverending Story just broke my kids -- fiction in a fiction...

Yesterday the kids made dinner and we watched the Charlie Brown Thanksgiving which was oddly on theme

My 2016 book, Aesthetics as Philosophy of Perception is now also freely downloadable at the Oxford University Press website: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

When a philosopher turns out to be a sleazeball that’s a concept creep.

www.washingtonpost.com/education/20... Education drives equity. Universities maintain our strategic supply of nerds and make sure future nerds can train. The "demographic cliff" is a slow decline to roughly 1997 levels, a lie predicated on the assumption that Hispanic kids won't go to college. 1/

Appreciating the proper use of the subjunctive in Jeremiah was a bullfrog

People who are wondering how the war on higher ed is going should pay attention to Utah over the next few months. I stand a decent chance of losing my job because someone read a land acknowledgement at a different university, and that made the legislature mad. The press calls it a budget cut. 1/

We do not have a faculty lounge, unless you count the conference room with the non-working computer

Also two weeks ago in aesthetics class one of us used Cormac McCarthy as an example of an author who wrote about horrible things and didn't do anything horrible

After splitting open a pomegranate I have a kitchen that looks like a crime scene and a new appreciation for Persephone noping out after six seeds

So corrupt they were the worst tyrants ever!

Looks like this might not be a completely dead space?

Philosopher and baking enthusiast Christopher Bartel talks about his love-hate relationship with the Great British Bake-Off (er, the Great British Baking Show?).

i alluded to this last night but it is genuinely wild to see these antifederalist dudes basically ask supporters of the constitution, "what if there is a trump?" here's patrick henry at the virginia ratifying convention.

I imagine it rather like Pleasantville, but with chartreuse

This week: A vintage episode ahead of Beauvoir's 115th anniversary as John & Ken explore her life and thought with Shannon Mussett from Utah Valley University, editor of "Beauvoir and Western Thought from Plato to Butler" – Sunday 11 am on KALW 91.7 FM in San Francisco & www.kalw.org/show/philoso...

Google killing Reader led to the downfall of the internet. That's when it all started to go to shit.

‘Tis the season for year-end recommendations! So some of our staff are bringing you one thing that we experienced this year that’s worth telling others about. *Although not necessarily from this year! aestheticsforbirds.com/2023/12/30/a...