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Anya Daly says we’ll solve homelessness only when we see it as our problem. https://philosophynow.org/issues/123/Homelessness_and_the_Limits_of_Hospitality Before I moved in 2005 from Duluth to St. Paul, Ramsey County, Minnesota , I watched a certain a news conference. The participants came from go...

Here is my review of the film "An Encounter with Simone Weil" submitted to Amazon. An Encounter with Simone Weil https://www.amazon.com/Encounter-Simone-Weil-Soraya-Broukhim/dp/B00GSPKPL0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1510874043&sr=8-1&keywords=an+encounter+with+simone+weil&dpID=51tz-iJjLKL&preST=_SY300_Q...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/11/opinion/sunday/interracial-friendship-donald-trump.html Here is a recent controversial article in the U.S. The author is a black professor of law. His op-ed raises several issues. What is true friendship? Is it possible between blacks and whites in the U.S. in view...

Spencer Klavan proclaims Socrates’ revolutionary answer to Nietzsche and Trump. https://philosophynow.org/issues/122/Socrates_and_Pre-Truth_Politics Here is the US Supreme Court on liberty applied to the abortion decision. President Trump is not the only relativist. Regarding the following article,...

The 8 photos of the house are fascinating.

Compare Simone Weil's thought on what is sacred in every human being with the trendy Professor Zizek's disinterest in Donald Trumpy:
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Within the first five minutes of the interview PROFESSOR :twisted: Zizek states that he declines to write on Donald Trump because "he is not interesting at all as a person. " I understand that Zizek is a communist and an atheist. A collectivist. In contrast, consider and compare these words from Si...

A documentary about Simone Weil http://linestreet.net/ Here is the trailer.

On September 27, 2017, I was watching Muhammed Yunus being interviewed on Democracy Now about the alleged "ethnic cleansing" of the Rohingya Muslim minority in Burma. I was startled to hear him state: "She stood for democracy. She stood for human rights. She stood for all the human values you can t...

I recommend "The World of Silence" by Max Picard.

I'm currently reading his book "The Human Face".

I'm currently reading this book about the thought of Ivan Illich.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3s-MPtbDKc

It's not our fault that he spouts embarrassingly stupid shit every single day. But it is a shame that that sideshow got him all the way to the presidency without ever having to answer a single useful question about the policies he was going to implement. How true. They let him distract them every t...

Bruce Gilley's "The case for colonialism" rocked the intellectual world this last couple weeks. Should be easy enough to find the article online, here is the abstract, "For the last 100 years, Western colonialism has had a bad name. It is high time to question this orthodoxy. Western colonialism wa...