on what would have been Helen Vendler’s 91st birthday, I’ve uploaded videos of two make-up lectures she recorded in 2016 for her course Poems, Poetry, Poetry (I was a grad student TA along with michelle a. taylor (@michelletaylor ~elsewhere~) and Michael Allen):

if this event is half as exciting as the showdown currently playing out in the substackosphere between Robin Hanson & Scott Alexander, I will count it a huge success...

This week! Final Night Owls of the year, with Robin Hanson !

Another Minds Almost Meeting episode with Agnes Callard, this time on: Multiculturalism

Website: mindsalmostmeeting.com/episodes/multi…
YouTube: youtu.be/c9bxVWbbj64

Does anyone understand why it is important that music have words, but not that the words make any sense?

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Final event of the year:
Robin Hanson is going to talk to us about why lack of cultural diversity might be humanity's downfall

Don't think I've seen this photo before. What a drag that the greatest writer on cinema lived only to 40.

DOGVILLE! We discuss Lars von Trier's morality play with Agnes Callard. Topics include: dualities, self-deception, anger...

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/113…

Tonight!!

Very excited to finally announce that my and Anastasia Berg’s book, “What Are Children For? On Ambivalence and Choice,” has a fetching typographic cover and is coming out with St. Martin's Press on June 11th!

Another MindsAlmostMeeting podcast w/ Agnes Callard, on Cultural evolution.
Website: mindsalmostmeeting.com/episodes/cultu…
YouTube: youtu.be/p96tc5hmFOI

Itai Sher You can dispute beliefs but not the 'truth' so referring to beliefs as 'truth' is a rhetorical trick that's supposed to make it harder to dispute beliefs

Friday: I have so many questions for Joe Swanberg about his TV show, Easy.

Open to all in the Chicago area! There will be pizza and cookies!

5 books on architecture that you shouldn’t read, via David Schaengold

Back by popular demand, my husband Arnold on Minds Almost Meeting, talking to Robin Hanson and me about The Three Body Problem TV show (& books).

watch:
mindsalmostmeeting.com/episodes/3-bod…
or:
youtu.be/E26S_sBS6UI

Wow
bbc.com/news/science-e…

I thought we have a big fertility problem. Then I realized it is probably caused by an even bigger harder to fix problem.

My first question was: your book has a maximalist ethos. So why aren't you a maximalist about color?

Choose one

More 🌃🦉🦉:
Next week I'll be talking to filmmaker Joe Swanberg about some episodes of his TV show, Easy.