avram alpert
@avramalpert.bsky.social
writer, teacher. artandtheoryprogram.org ... Author of The Good-Enough Life, etc.
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Next week, Dec 3 at 6:00pm EST, see @avramalpert.bsky.social, author of The Good-Enough Life, at @backmarketofficial.bsky.social for a book talk and open discussion. The first 30 attendees will be gifted a copy of the book!
Don't miss this amazing free event. Reserve your space: buff.ly/iivxtYD
Don't miss this amazing free event. Reserve your space: buff.ly/iivxtYD
November 26, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Next week, Dec 3 at 6:00pm EST, see @avramalpert.bsky.social, author of The Good-Enough Life, at @backmarketofficial.bsky.social for a book talk and open discussion. The first 30 attendees will be gifted a copy of the book!
Don't miss this amazing free event. Reserve your space: buff.ly/iivxtYD
Don't miss this amazing free event. Reserve your space: buff.ly/iivxtYD
Rhetorically, do the opposite: “Unpack the court”. It’s been packed by barely legal manoeuvres. Set it right, either by forced retirement or expansion and in either case new principles going forward
4. I think I’m coming around on expanding the court. Get a good slogan for this and run with it. Have regular people care about it.
November 3, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Rhetorically, do the opposite: “Unpack the court”. It’s been packed by barely legal manoeuvres. Set it right, either by forced retirement or expansion and in either case new principles going forward
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“To imagine yourself as a modern-day Seneca, a sage liberated from the cares afflicting more ordinary souls, is its own form of self-indulgence,” @erikmbaker.bsky.social argues in his Issue Sixteen essay on self-help philosophy.
www.thedriftmag.com/how-i-learne...
www.thedriftmag.com/how-i-learne...
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Shitty Life
Self-Help Gets Philosophical
www.thedriftmag.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:02 PM
“To imagine yourself as a modern-day Seneca, a sage liberated from the cares afflicting more ordinary souls, is its own form of self-indulgence,” @erikmbaker.bsky.social argues in his Issue Sixteen essay on self-help philosophy.
www.thedriftmag.com/how-i-learne...
www.thedriftmag.com/how-i-learne...
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NJHN is hosting a talk "What Could a Good-Enough Future Look Like?" by @avramalpert.bsky.social on 10/26 at 1:30pm at the Monroe Twp Public Library and via Zoom. Details at njhn.org/avramalpert2....
October 22, 2025 at 2:26 AM
NJHN is hosting a talk "What Could a Good-Enough Future Look Like?" by @avramalpert.bsky.social on 10/26 at 1:30pm at the Monroe Twp Public Library and via Zoom. Details at njhn.org/avramalpert2....
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Is it OK to be happy when the world is falling apart? | Avram Alpert
Is it OK to be happy when the world is falling apart? | Avram Alpert
It is reasonable and moral to think that when others are harmed, you should feel the injury, but our sympathy should not be limited to pain
www.theguardian.com
August 31, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Is it OK to be happy when the world is falling apart? | Avram Alpert
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Trump’s tariffs get one thing right: capitalism is changing | Avram C Alpert
Trump’s tariffs get one thing right: capitalism is changing | Avram C Alpert
The president’s protectivist trade vision is deeply flawed. But he has picked up on something Democrats are missing
www.theguardian.com
May 6, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Trump’s tariffs get one thing right: capitalism is changing | Avram C Alpert
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ICYMI - The recording is now up of "A Politics of Belonging" -- watch or listen to @avramalpert talking with Alexis Papazoglou on a conception of belonging that enables people to feel comfortable enough to be different.
#Philosophy #PhilSky #belonging
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rrp...
#Philosophy #PhilSky #belonging
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rrp...
A Politics of Belonging
YouTube video by The Philosopher
www.youtube.com
February 21, 2025 at 2:08 AM
ICYMI - The recording is now up of "A Politics of Belonging" -- watch or listen to @avramalpert talking with Alexis Papazoglou on a conception of belonging that enables people to feel comfortable enough to be different.
#Philosophy #PhilSky #belonging
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rrp...
#Philosophy #PhilSky #belonging
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rrp...