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Gregory Convertito
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Philosophy adjunct. Political philosophy, Marx, Latin America, and some other stuff. he/him
https://gregoryconvertito.wordpress.com/

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When you’re *in* the philosophy department (kind of), but not *the* philosophy department.
Movie ticket to see a showing of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”
November 7, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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I often find Arendt’s more pithy observations more relevant than her more well-known works.
Photo of a very short Arendt text: WAR CRIMES AND THE AMERICAN CONSCIENCE I know that the war in Vietnam is not the first and will not be the last undeclared war. But I think it is possible to overlook an important point: When a nation declares war, it implies that it is prepared to play the game according to the rules. Since the beginning of this century there have been attempts to lay down certain laws for war. By not declaring war, a nation manages to evade even these feeble limitations. 1970
October 2, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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John Adams, on the Boston Massacre:
As the Evidence was, the Verdict of the Jury was exactly right. This however is no Reason why the Town should not call the Action of that Night a Massacre, nor is it any Argument in favour of the Governor or Minister, who caused them to be sent here. But it is the strongest Proofs of the Danger of Standing Armies.
September 3, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Shakira concert
May 14, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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The crying began will before the end:
Photo of the end of the LRB article: 'Today's builders of Babel tell us that there is no room for losers, and that those who fall along the way are losers, Francis wrote in his last meditations on Good Fri-day. 'Theirs is the construction site of Hell.'
May 8, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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This is like if you turned the entire Will Hunting library fees bar scene inside out.
[tweet from Jules Terpak, @julesterpak]: Lol I cheated my whole way through college before ChatGPT. The learning environment is wildly outdated, uninspiring, and non-retentive (meaning you remember info for a test/to hit marks, then it's gone be you have no true life experience to even stick it to yet). And now, all that time and money spent in college doesn't even guarantee you a job at the end of it. These are the issues at the forefront imo
May 8, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Looking through the list of Francis’s publications and
John Paul, Pope; Castro, Fidel (2004). Bergoglio, Jorge (ed.). Diálogos entre Juan Pablo Il y Fidel Castro [Dialogues Between John Paul I| and Fidel Castro] (in Spanish). Buenos Aires: Ciudad Argentina. ISBN 9789875070745.
April 23, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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Yours is better, but
In The Social Contract, Rousseau sets out to always reconcile: (choose one) A. justice/right with utility/interest B. Kendrick and Drake C. freedom and economic facts D. German philosophy, French politics, and British economics
March 21, 2025 at 2:41 AM