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An argument worthy of florence 🦐 : why is utilitarianism false? Because there is no greatest number!

"The debate — organizers (and the university’s press office) were at pains to emphasize — was not an official Harvard event." That's the tragedy--we need universities that would be embarrassed that such an event required outside sponsors. nytimes.com/2025/05/06/art…

Excellent interview with the avatar of H S Joshi

We are joined by Brad Skow (Philosophy, MIT) to discuss Damien Chazelle’s WHIPLASH! Abuse, striving, greatness, parenting, color, the ending(!), and, of course, jazz. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/139…

Check out Brad Skow's lucid accompanying substack post about our discussion about WHIPLASH, and let us know where you stand on the film! open.substack.com/pub/mostly/p/p…

Pleased to have a new essay in IFS arguing for caution in implementing universal regulations on homeschoolers - especially in response to head-line grabbing cases of abuse. Instead we need “right-sized” rules targeted to the problems they seek to solve.

“It wouldn’t allow me to expand. There seemed never to be enough space. Even people’s ideas were small. There was too much contentment, too much acceptance of things as they’d always been. It was beautiful; it was a great place to be old in.”

Just finished Chapter One. Incredible. Amazing. Every good adjective you can think of. Pre-order it this second, if not sooner.

This is my annual tweet advocating that students’ divergence from mean grade be reported on their transcript (including a summary cumulative average). This incentivizes students to seek classes that differentiate them and provides a needed incentive to counter grade inflation.

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In Extremis: Poems about My Father Wendell Berry, 1994