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Quotes from Joe Biden, interviewed by Chris Cuomo...

Quotes from Joe Biden, interviewed by Chris Cuomo on CNN. By common acclamation, this was better than his debate performance. "I even went so far in the middle of that busing controversy was saying I'd use helicopters if that was... Continue reading

Posted Jul 5, 2019 at cheese it, the cops!

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Crispin the YouTube Pundit on the second debate...

Crispin the YouTube Pundit on the second debate and why Joe Biden should dissipate. Continue reading

Posted Jun 28, 2019 at cheese it, the cops!

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My astonishing YouTube mansplanation of last...

My astonishing YouTube mansplanation of last night's debate. Continue reading

Posted Jun 27, 2019 at cheese it, the cops!

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Joe Biden, Rattletrap

The video version. Continue reading

Posted Jun 26, 2019 at cheese it, the cops!

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I'm going to read/footnote my column for...

I'm going to read/footnote my column for SpliceToday every week on YouTube. I might go back and grab some of my favorites from the last few years as well. Continue reading

Posted Jun 26, 2019 at cheese it, the cops!

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How Thoreau Became a Radical

[piece I couldn't sell] The Making of a Radical: Nathaniel Rogers and Henry David Thoreau Crispin Sartwell When it comes to describing the influences that shaped Henry David Thoreau’s prose and his politics as he came to maturity in the... Continue reading

Posted Jun 25, 2019 at cheese it, the cops!

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wsj: Nothing the Russians or anyone else can do on social media can in itself delegitimize any election. pdf splicetoday: Male Aging Memoir, Short Version "Spying' is not the wrong word. But even if it was...(investigate the investigation) Resounding: The... Continue reading

Posted Apr 25, 2019 at cheese it, the cops!

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Oh man, thanks y'all. Yeah maybe I'm in a bit of a dip. I will come out of it! Or at least grind through it.

Commented Apr 19, 2019 on mental at cheese it, the cops!

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My monographs or single-author books in reverse temporal order (sorry about the Amazonishness; if you object, I see why). Entanglements: A System of Philosophy (SUNY) How to Escape: Magic, Madness, Beauty, and Cynicism (SUNY) Political Aesthetics (Cornell) Against the State:... Continue reading

Posted Apr 13, 2019 at cheese it, the cops!

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recent splicetoday things:

apologizing for whiteness is not the worst idea resounding: the bellamy brothers (first of a series, reaching back and re-appreciating) mass shootings as a kind of nihilism (perhaps ideology and, like, social media, are not the problem) go ahead and... Continue reading

Posted Apr 1, 2019 at cheese it, the cops!

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I'll figure this thing out eventually

The Oscars and the Illusion of Perfect Representation I've spent much of my career on this question of the various relations of representations and reality. It was the topic of my dissertation, which was an attack on the claim that... Continue reading

Posted Feb 25, 2019 at cheese it, the cops!

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[my pre-emptive apology for all this] more on the...

[my pre-emptive apology for all this] more on the gettysburg trustee situation and the sense of community that we have on campus these days. Yes, I am absorbing slightly-veiled and not-at-all-veiled accusations of anti-semitism in the email, etc. Can I... Continue reading

Posted Feb 25, 2019 at cheese it, the cops!

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MMA: philosophy vs physics

I do see signs that physics is coming to its senses, or sort of trying to scrutinize its own Hegelian Idealism critically. It doesn't really have the tools, though. Man it's been a long sad tale of bald logical contradictions... Continue reading

Posted Feb 25, 2019 at cheese it, the cops!

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Hogan's Heroes claims another victim

Me in the WSJ on the "resignation" of a trustee of Gettysburg College due to a yearbook pic of him at a Hogan's Heroes costume party at the college in 1980. What it's like on campus: everyone is surreptitiously watching... Continue reading

Posted Feb 23, 2019 at cheese it, the cops!

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Self-Reliance, Servility, and Mental Health By...

Self-Reliance, Servility, and Mental Health By Crispin Sartwell Ralph Waldo Emerson's incandescent essay "Self-Reliance" of 1841 has long been regarded as a fundamental statement of American values, a manifesto picking up where the Declaration of Independence left off. Perhaps you've... Continue reading

Posted Feb 16, 2019 at cheese it, the cops!

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The Truth About Truth

Dan Kaufman and I talk about the nature of truth as understood in philosophy and then about the nature of philosophy, among other matters, on his Sophia show on meaningoflife.tv. I like the way he frames it: from very similar... Continue reading

Posted Feb 12, 2019 at cheese it, the cops!

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What May I Hope?

Gloss on the latest WSJ piece, on Ralph Waldo Emerson and the American Psychological Association, in a contest for the very soul of America. The APA has already decisively won the contest for the very prose style of America, in... Continue reading

Posted Feb 9, 2019 at cheese it, the cops!

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The Washington Post Opinion Page and the CIA: No distance

One of the most disturbing contemporary media zones is the Washington Post opinion page. It is just very very close to the "intelligence community," as Jeff Bezos is building the information infrastructure for American intelligence agencies; the initial contract seems... Continue reading

Posted Feb 2, 2019 at cheese it, the cops!

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Lule of Raw

ICE ran fake university in Michigan. The claim that 'no one is above the law' can't endure a moment's honest scrutiny. It is impossible not to exempt the authorities from the laws they enforce. Here, it's laws against fraud. If... Continue reading

Posted Feb 1, 2019 at cheese it, the cops!

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Nicholas Sandmann and Nathan Phillips: They Both Did Well

They Both Did Fine Crispin Sartwell There was no physical altercation. Each of them, the young man and the old, exercised his right to be there and express his political and religious beliefs peacefully. Nicholas Sandmann and Nathan Phillips both... Continue reading

Posted Jan 24, 2019 at cheese it, the cops!

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