“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

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In her profound and thoughtful book “Ordinary Vices”, Judith Shklar discusses political vices. One of her central themes is that we pay too much attention to hypocrisy as a political vice, and that cruelty is the worst of all political vices.

Barcelona, Spain 🇪🇸
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New York Times, Jan. 26, 1935.

Scary, unsettling times on this world. Meanwhile, 5,000 light years away, this beautiful giant cloud, the Dolphin Nebula, glows, blown by hot winds from a massive star. About 60 light years across, it covers an area about the size of a full moon in our skies. 🧪

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In this culture of rampant consumerism, the library is a bastion of counter culture. There one can check out things for free. Great books filled with profound ideas are all available for free.

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Kurt Vonnegut writing about the hypocrisy of so-called Christians.

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