![]() ![]() Plato, and by the way one wouldn't want to live in Plato's Republic, it was a bit sort of Fascist in a way, but he was a tremendous genius who identified all the really important questions to ask and tried to wrestle with them in a way which has triggered a whole tradition of debate about those matters. “They really did change the way people thought and debated things. ![]() His three philosophical titans are Plato, Aristotle and Kant, he says. It's an attempt to find the right way to formulate, and then to answer all the great questions that really press on us.” “In the 20th century philosophy has contributed enormously to computer science and to cognitive science. Modern philosophical enquiry alone has given us the natural sciences, psychology, sociology and empirical linguistics, he says. He says generations of philosophical thinkers have profoundly changed the way we see the world. ![]() "So, the very earliest philosophers were not just philosophers but scientists and historians and psychologists, they were just trying to make sense of things.” ![]() “Well the first thing to remember is that philosophy, in its original meaning, just meant rational and careful inquiry, thinking about everything, trying to discover and make sense and to achieve some kind of understanding of our world and of ourselves. Listen to the full interview with Professor Grayling ![]()
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![]() The teenager is preparing to get married because as often reminded, a daughter is only a “temporary guest” in her father’s home. ![]() The brilliant debut and New York Times bestseller is an incredible Palestinian-American story of unhappy relationships, crippling patriarchy, and endless generational trauma.īetween Rum’s main characters, Isra and Deya, the struggles of living in a patriarchal society, guised as tradition and culture, is central, following the distress of being exiled and making a life in a new country.įocusing on three generations of the same family, Rum begins her novel in 1990 with Isra, a 17-year-old who lives in Palestine. ![]() ![]() CHICAGO: From the mountains of Birzeit in Palestine to the concrete confines of New York’s Brooklyn comes Etaf Rum’s novel, “A Woman is No Man.” ![]() ![]() ![]() Then they both left, bolting the door behind them. 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The following is from Hernan Diaz’s novel, In The Distance. ![]() ![]() Daphne has been trusted by the Judge's wife to pass on her porceline bebes, figurines that were treasured by the wife, and Daphne wants Lila to find them.Ĭan the mystery be solved? Will the treasure ever be found? Will Daphne's name be cleared after all these years? And what about Lila-will she forever be at the spirits' beck and call?Ĭhapters are told in turn by Lila in the present and Daphne in the past-during the slave days of the South. Daphne didn't poison the Judge's wife and daughters, but she may know who did. She has been hanging around the plantation for two centuries, trying to get someone to see or hear her, and finally Lila shows up and seems to have the powers. When the ghost of a slave girl named Daphne appears to her and asks Lila for help, Lila knows that she can't pretend she doesn't see the spirits.ĭaphne hasn't been able to pass on to the other side, whatever or wherever it may be. Now that she and her family are visiting Laurel Oaks, a haunted plantation in Louisiana, Lila sees and hears far more than she wants to. ![]() ![]() Thirteen-year old Lila has been hearing and seeing strange things ever since family friend and Jemez pueblo member Roberto died. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Three Cups of Tea" traces Mortenson's decade-long odyssey to build schools, especially for girls, throughout the region that gave birth to the Taliban and sanctuary to Al Qaeda. When the people of an impoverished village in Pakistan's Karakoram Himalaya took him in and nursed him back to health, Mortenson made an impulsive promise: He would return one day and build them a school.Īlthough he was a homeless "climbing bum" living out of his aging Buick in Berkeley, California, Mortenson sold what few possessions he had to launch one of the most remarkable humanitarian campaigns of our time." "One day in 1993, high up in the world's most inhospitable mountains, Greg Mortenson wandered lost and alone, broken in body and spirit, after a failed attempt to climb K2, the world's deadliest peak. Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780143038252 ![]() ![]() ![]() There are many ways to support Basic Income, click here to go to our Support wiki page for full details. Build ties with local and distant supporters of this transnational movement. Work to create political support and pressure for Basic Income, in support of local branches of the Basic Income Earth Network, and meetup groups.Ĭonnect. Talk about the specifics of how Basic Income should be implemented in different countries, and how potential problems can be overcome. Increase publicity and support for Basic Income schemes, and explain their benefits.ĭiscuss. This is a community space for discussion and advocacy of Basic Income schemes, with four main goals:Įducate. 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Seasons 1 and 2 both premiered in November and wrapped in December, so assuming no production shutdowns like the one that resulted in an episode being cut from Season 2, perhaps His Dark Materials will be back in the fall. ![]() My fingers are crossed for a 2021 release at least. While that doesn't reveal any details about the plot, it could at least mean that fans will have one month less to wait for the show to return to HBO. Season 3 Has Already Been Filming For A WhileĪlthough the news that His Dark Materials has begun filming the third season adaptation of The Amber Spyglass only just broke, the clapperboard reveals that Dafne Keen and Amir Wilson actually began filming for the Season 3 premiere almost a full month ago on May 24. That's not to say that an in-universe time jump will match how much time has passed in the real world, but I'm guessing some weeks or even months will have passed before Will and Lyra reunite. His Dark Materials finished filming Season 2 in 2019, and the teen actors may look visibly older with Season 3 production beginning in spring 2021. And a time jump would make sense from a practical standpoint. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It is instead liberal opponents who would overthrow existing constitutional understanding in order to unseat Trump, but in getting their man would inflict permanent damage on the office of the presidency, the most important office in our constitutional system and the world.This provocative and engaging work is a compelling defense of an embattled president's ideas and actions. ![]() Far from considering Trump an inherent threat to our nation's founding principles, Yoo convincingly argues that Washington, Jefferson, Madison and Hamilton would have seen Trump as returning to their vision of presidential power, even at his most controversial. In the 2020 primaries, the candidates have rushed to accuse Trump of destroying our democracy and jeopardizing our nation's very existence.Yoo argues that this charge has things exactly backwards. Mainstream media outlets have reported fresh examples of alleged executive overreach or authoritarian White House decisions nearly every day of his presidency. Skip to main content Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. In Defender in Chief, celebrated constitutional scholar John Yoo makes a provocative case against Donald Trump's alleged disruption of constitutional rules and norms.Donald Trump isn't shredding the Constitution-he's its greatest defender.Ask any liberal-and many moderate conservatives-and they'll tell you that Donald Trump is a threat to the rule of law and the U.S. John Yoo defines what President Trump has in regards to Presidential powers and how Congress repeatedly overreaches abusing their power to obstruct President. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Instead, Flashman’s overwhelming desire to save his own skin led him into all sorts of betrayals, especially toward his relations with women. But Fraser’s politics, which were decidedly socially conservative, championed the very values Flashman did not subscribe to: “standards of decency, sportsmanship, politeness, respect for the law, family values.”įraser never injected such sentiments into the novels, however. 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