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Ursinus College (blameless). Author: Let's Be Reasonable (Feb. 2021). Work in WSJ, Bulwark, Commentary, Wash. Examiner, CHE, InsideHigherEd, McSweeney's

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Thread: 1. Today is publication day for my book, Let's Be Reasonable: A Conservative Case for Liberal Education (@PrincetonUPress). If youre interested in our colleges and universities, please give it a look. press.princeton.edu/books/ha…

Let's Be Reasonable

A conservative college professor's compelling defense of liberal education

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This is a brilliant analogy, and I would add that while single voters are constantly determining elections, single terrorists rarely do harm.
Mike Lee
@BasedMikeLeeOct 19
By Leslie Stahl’s logic, it’s wrong to require air travelers in America to go through TSA screening because (1) very few air travelers carry out terrorist acts (indeed, “the numbers are tiny”), and (2) mandatory TSA screening tends to “sow distrust” in the safety of air travel.
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Although I am disappointed about Jalen Hurts and hope he will be okay, there is at least this silver lining: it has brought the "ack, the jab, blah, blah, Fauci!" contingent back into my life. Missed you guys!
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Announced at faculty meeting that “France Has Fallen.” Was ruled out of order. I was not prevented from distributing free copies of Camp of the Saints or Buchanan bobbleheads, but few took one. The problem is more liberal weakness than the left itself.
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In other words, Rousseau was right.
Phil Hoyeck
@PAHoyeckOct 17
A Brief History of Philosophy: • 375 BC: Plato is wrong • 323 BC: Aristotle is wrong • 311 BC: Epicurus is wrong • 225 BC: Chrysippus is wrong • 364 AD: Hypatia is wrong • 413 AD: Augustine is wrong • 1020 AD: Avicenna is wrong • 1180 AD: Averroes is wrong • 1250 AD: Aquinas is wrong • 1320 AD: Ockham is wrong • 1641 AD: Descartes is wrong • 1675 AD: Spinoza is wrong • 1739 AD: Hume is wrong • 1781 AD: Kant is wrong • 1807 AD: Hegel is wrong • 1843 AD: Kierkegaard is wrong • 1844 AD: Marx is wrong • 1887 AD: Nietzsche is wrong • 1903 AD: Russell is wrong • 1921 AD: Wittgenstein is wrong • 1927 AD: Heidegger is wrong • 1966 AD: Foucault is wrong
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Dog: I need to go outside. Me: You just came inside. Dog: New information has come to light.
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For all the cynical pandering, I think there is an ideological core here. Vance is advancing a worldview in which the world is ruled by strongmen who espouse a "national interest" completely disconnected from liberty or self-government. It's a view articulated in this 2017 paean to Putin by NatCon intellectual Christopher Caldwell, who argues that while Putin is a terrible leader by American standards, he's an excellent one by "traditional" (i.e. pre-liberal democracy) standards of enhancing national power. imprimis.hillsdale.edu/how-t…

How to Think About Vladimir Putin

Our globalist leaders may have deprecated sovereignty since the end of the Cold War, but that does not mean it has ceased for an instant to be the primary subject of politics.

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X Global
@X_Global_tvOct 17
Vance: "I've never met Putin in person. I've spoken to him on the phone. He was calmer than you might expect. The American media has a stereotype of him. He's very deliberate and measured in his words. I think, at his core, he's someone who cares about Russia's interests as he sees them. One reason he respects the President is that he recognizes the President cares about the interests of the American people."
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Can't believe Anna Paulina Luna didn't get here first.
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Don't listen to Hadas, a shill for hasty generalization who probably wants to raise your taxes. The real problem is the ad hominem.
Hadas Weiss@weiss_hadasOct 18
don't generalize, people don't like it
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Running the A/C has been expensive this summer. Excited about transitioning to my oil heat.
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Caitlin Flanagan
@CaitlinPacificOct 17
Out here at the senior mixer. I mean No Kings March.
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At least the rash of departures in the Trump admin this week has exhausted the "now Marco Rubio has to do this!" meme.
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Stan Veuger
@stanveugerOct 17
Wow, this was so hard to foresee when Congress—including 30+ Dem senators and 50+ House members—voted to give Trump new tariff powers
Laura Rozen
@lrozenOct 17
Replying to @lrozen
Trump officially waives application of the sanctions on Russian energy in the Lindsey Graham Act he signed last month.
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Listen I get that people are concerned about "the economy." But you don't need to buy Chunky soup, which is high in sodium anyway. Gruel is versatile--choose the cheapest grain--and leave out the milk. Water is fine! Me, I'm still eating rib eye, but I'm a Kennedy, goddammit.
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Ꮍᴀᴇʟ@elle91Oct 16
Me: "Don't you dare" sounds perfectly normal but "do not you dare" sounds ridiculous which is insane because "don't" is a contraction for "do not." Doctor: I meant is anything bothering you physically
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I agree that the academic climate is different now, but the relativism in Closing is animated by moral dogmatism.
Tyler Austin Harper@Tyler_A_HarperOct 16
The Closing of the American Mind has some evergreen moments but one of the ways it shows its age is that Bloom is describing an academic climate where moral and cultural relativism prevails, whereas the academic climate today is marked by moral dogmatism and cultural orthodoxy.
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Paul Schofield@pschofie79Oct 16
Congress must pass a law giving DraftKings the right to have their own doctor inspect players, otherwise the integrity of the game is compromised.
PFT Live@PFT_LiveOct 15
The handling of Jalen Hurts' calf injury is fishy, and there's nothing to protect gamblers from not getting enough information about it.
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Philadelphia Eagles
@EaglesOct 16
Friday's Injury Report #CARvsPHI
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This is wisdom. When the economy got rough, I swore off purchasing mechanical birds. I don't have Clarkson money. Meanwhile. I was at Acme and saw someone purchasing a $15,000 mechanical bird with an EBT card. This is the main reason I voted for Trump six times in three states.
FactPost
@factpostnewsOct 16
RFK: People can go to the grocery store and not get the ribeye to save money Q: Do you have a favorite cut of steak? RFK: If I had to choose a favorite, it's a ribeye
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Kimberly Ross
@SouthernKeeksOct 16
Welcome to your 40s, where sleeping in the wrong position means your neck doesn’t work right for the entire day.
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Wow. The great feminization is further along than even Helen Andrews supposed.
Maine GOP
@mainegopOct 15
Unacceptable behavior coming from Troy Jackson tonight
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