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Bookmark or Share- Crooked Timber — Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight ...A post I wrote last week sparked a lively debate, and one strand of that debate was whether it is appropriate to use the term “privilege” (“cis privilege” in particular) to describe the phenomena I was talking about. I identified mainly two clusters of objections, but please do let me know in the comments if I have overlooked any. [click to continue…]
- 2024 October 02 — Crooked TimberBack in 1991 my co-blogger here at Crooked Timber, Elizabeth S. Anderson, reminded every one of the significance of John Stuart Mill and Experiments in Living (Ethics, 102(1): 4-26). She situated Mill’s views on the matter in the context of a debate with Bentham (and Parfit) over the nature of the good in which Mill wanted to defend a ...
- Crooked Timber — Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight ...After Trump’s second election victory, lots of Americans are talking about emigrating, most commonly to Canada. This happens with every rightwing election win[1], but nothing ever comes of it.
- Crooked Timber — Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight ...Back in 1991 my co-blogger here at Crooked Timber, Elizabeth S. Anderson, reminded every one of the significance of John Stuart Mill and Experiments in Living (Ethics, 102(1): 4-26). She situated Mill’s views on the matter in the context of a debate with Bentham (and Parfit) over the nature of the good in which Mill wanted to defend a ...
- The travesty of liberalism — Crooked TimberLFC: I would agree, except that I’ve seen similar passages from writers who I know are leftists. Without too much difficulty, I can interpret the last quoted paragraph as saying something like, “this new generation of so-called ‘New Deal socialists’ actually doesn’t believe any of the things that *real* socialists believe; they are *only* social democrats, who aren’t radical enough ...
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