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On pandemic-era incarceration.
During the pandemic, a crummy situation has become even worse.
Bryan Stevenson, children of incarcerated parents, commissary, Covid-19, economics of incarceration, forgiveness, incarcerated parents, incarceration during Covid-19, incarceration during the pandemic, inflation, jail, jail economics, Just Mercy, mass incarceration, Midwest Pages to Prisoners, Pandemic, parents in jail, reading to children
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On the apparent rise in transgender and non-binary identities.
Our culture has changed, but so has the environment, and we need to acknowledge both.
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On ‘The Dawn of Everything’ and the Future.
If farmers lived in miserable societies, how did they conquer the world?
A New History of Humanity, Against the Grain, Appiah, building walls, capitalism, China, Civilization, civilizations collapse, climate change, climate justice, collaboration, collapse of civilizations, competition, David Deutsch, David Graeber, David Wengrow, Digging for Utopia, economic systems, economics, efficiency, entropy, equality, European expansion, expansion, farming, first peoples, fishing with a frying pan, freedom, Graeber, growth, heat death, history of civilization, history of farming, history of technology, human evolution, human prehistory, hunter-gatherers, in praise of inefficiency, inequality, James Scott, John Smith, justice, Kwame Anthony Appiah, land management, Maggie Nelson, Matt Siegel, mutual aid, Naomi Klein, Native Americans, On Freedom, origin of civilization, origin of inequality, origin of patriarchy, paleolithic diet, patriarchy, pilgrims, political philosophy, prehistoric diet, prehistoric farmers, prehistory, prehistory of farming, property systems, review, technology, The Beginning of Infinity, The Dawn of Everything, The Secret History of Food, United States, Universal Paperclip, Utopian philosophy, Wengrow
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On Roe v. Wade
What rights do you have, if a research experiment might instantly erase them?
abortion, abortion access, abortion rights, adversarial justice, adversarial law, adversarialism, artificial womb, caregivers, choice, conception, court arguments, David Cole, equal protection, ethics, external conception, fetal development, fetal viability, freedom, gestation, imbalance of power, infanticide, Jenny Kleeman, justice, Justice Sotomayor, motherhood, Mothers and Others, parenthood, personhood, philosophy, Planned Parenthood, Planned Parenthood v Casey, potentiality of human life, pregnancy, privacy, pro-choice, pro-life, reproduction, reproductive freedom, reproductive rights, right to life movement, Roe, Roe v Wade, Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, Sarah Hrdy, science, science versus philosophy, scientific research, Sex Robots and Vegan Meat, Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court, Supreme Court justices, Supreme Court opinions, ultrasound, wealth, women's health, women's rights
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On work.
Work can feel soul-sucking. Much work also makes the world worse.
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On Stonehenge.
After the winter solstice, we celebrate the birth of a rising sun.
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On vocabulary and time.
Psychological time is relational, but we don’t have a word for it!
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On monsters and mirrors.
When the wrong people dare to act like our heroes, we call them monsters.
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On masks and whether they ‘work.’
Masks can *delay* illness; only vaccination will prevent it..
coronavirus, Covid, covid vaccine, Covid vaccines for children, Covid-19, Covid-19 vaccine, do masks work, endemic, epidemic, forever pandemic, forever virus, how do masks work, masking, masks, masks in school, Pandemic, pandemic goals, pandemic parenting, pandemic response, school, school closure, schooling during the pandemic, schools, vaccination, vaccines, vaccines for children
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On power (& when men feel small).
People (okay, okay, MEN) can be particularly awful when they want a sense of power without working for it.
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