How the hell did we get to this point?

I’m compiling a list on my newsletter of the best philosophy lectures available on YouTube. For instances Dreyfus’ Being & Time lectures. I’m sending it out as a free resource. Any other suggestions?

Watched a few episodes of Pluribus. I like that the main character is an author who hates her audience and hates her books but keeps writing them because they sell. I don’t know if I like much else about the show. Maybe it gets better. Right now it is underwhelming.

This is my Christmas

The problem with the canon debate is that the perspective is all wrong. The canon is not something that can be mastered. It is something that demands continuous engagement.

"The New School for Social Research was founded in 1919 by a group of progressive intellectuals...who had grown dissatisfied with the growing bureaucracy and fragmentation of higher education." They now have more full-time management than full-time faculty.

I suspect the MIT interview question did not misspell 'picnic'

Doctor is now saying that, in fact, we do have to pay. Back on the phone with my insurance company. Kill me.