Officially Celebrated Serious Thinkers despise contingency because it makes almost all of their sober expounding absurd. No one can predict the future, not even a little. The past did not predict the present, not even in hindsight. Stuff just happens. You can only ever look backwards.
December 24, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Officially Celebrated Serious Thinkers despise contingency because it makes almost all of their sober expounding absurd. No one can predict the future, not even a little. The past did not predict the present, not even in hindsight. Stuff just happens. You can only ever look backwards.
Like, whatever you think about that, the agreed-on fact is that he identified himself as "African-American" and the disputed interpretation is whether that amounts to identifying as "Black" or not. So the caption is stacking the deck even on the NYT's own terms.
July 7, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Like, whatever you think about that, the agreed-on fact is that he identified himself as "African-American" and the disputed interpretation is whether that amounts to identifying as "Black" or not. So the caption is stacking the deck even on the NYT's own terms.