Arturo Calderón 🕵️♂️(Philosophus Autodidactus) 📚
@meta-myself.bsky.social
Citizen Scholar & Agonistic Liberal
Helping you learn why America is exceptional—worthy of our definition, discussion, and defense.
http://publiusapologia.substack.com
Helping you learn why America is exceptional—worthy of our definition, discussion, and defense.
http://publiusapologia.substack.com
Pinned
The Truth is never weakened by questioning it.
The Truth is strengthened by questioning it.
The Truth is strengthened by questioning it.
Vance and Miller deserve our scorn...
Trump at this point is utterly deranged; they show him fake news, and he reacts with EOs or whatever.
We need a Democrat win in 2028.
Worst case scenario: Trump croaks in office and Vance becomes president.
Vance would then suspend the election indefinitely.
Trump at this point is utterly deranged; they show him fake news, and he reacts with EOs or whatever.
We need a Democrat win in 2028.
Worst case scenario: Trump croaks in office and Vance becomes president.
Vance would then suspend the election indefinitely.
October 10, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Vance and Miller deserve our scorn...
Trump at this point is utterly deranged; they show him fake news, and he reacts with EOs or whatever.
We need a Democrat win in 2028.
Worst case scenario: Trump croaks in office and Vance becomes president.
Vance would then suspend the election indefinitely.
Trump at this point is utterly deranged; they show him fake news, and he reacts with EOs or whatever.
We need a Democrat win in 2028.
Worst case scenario: Trump croaks in office and Vance becomes president.
Vance would then suspend the election indefinitely.
Will Hispanic and Asian Immigrants Save America?
Yes...
Etzioni, A. (2018). Will Hispanic and Asian immigrants save America? In C. M. Swain (Ed.), Debating immigration (2nd ed., pp. 101–118). Cambridge University Press.
www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...
Yes...
Etzioni, A. (2018). Will Hispanic and Asian immigrants save America? In C. M. Swain (Ed.), Debating immigration (2nd ed., pp. 101–118). Cambridge University Press.
www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...
September 12, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Will Hispanic and Asian Immigrants Save America?
Yes...
Etzioni, A. (2018). Will Hispanic and Asian immigrants save America? In C. M. Swain (Ed.), Debating immigration (2nd ed., pp. 101–118). Cambridge University Press.
www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...
Yes...
Etzioni, A. (2018). Will Hispanic and Asian immigrants save America? In C. M. Swain (Ed.), Debating immigration (2nd ed., pp. 101–118). Cambridge University Press.
www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...
“We should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage...
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September 12, 2025 at 7:29 AM
“We should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage...
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Trump is xenophobic.
September 4, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Trump is xenophobic.
“The invocation of uncertainty is instrumental to regulated companies’ efforts to slow down, block, or delegitimize public regulatory intervention.”
—David Demortain (2023)
—David Demortain (2023)
September 3, 2025 at 10:35 AM
“The invocation of uncertainty is instrumental to regulated companies’ efforts to slow down, block, or delegitimize public regulatory intervention.”
—David Demortain (2023)
—David Demortain (2023)
“What about groups on the bottom rungs of society’s ladder?... What will they then do, given that they, too, are presumed to prefer a positive... self-concept?”
—Rupert Brown (ca. 2000), Social Identity Theorist
—Rupert Brown (ca. 2000), Social Identity Theorist
August 29, 2025 at 1:01 PM
“What about groups on the bottom rungs of society’s ladder?... What will they then do, given that they, too, are presumed to prefer a positive... self-concept?”
—Rupert Brown (ca. 2000), Social Identity Theorist
—Rupert Brown (ca. 2000), Social Identity Theorist
All our mistakes are shaped like the fractal universe and colored pink.
Pink Noise (1/f—magnitude over frequency) is present at every scale from biological systems and human behavior to financial markets and climate systems.
Upon acting intentionally, you break loose from the scale-free power law.
Pink Noise (1/f—magnitude over frequency) is present at every scale from biological systems and human behavior to financial markets and climate systems.
Upon acting intentionally, you break loose from the scale-free power law.
August 29, 2025 at 6:38 AM
All our mistakes are shaped like the fractal universe and colored pink.
Pink Noise (1/f—magnitude over frequency) is present at every scale from biological systems and human behavior to financial markets and climate systems.
Upon acting intentionally, you break loose from the scale-free power law.
Pink Noise (1/f—magnitude over frequency) is present at every scale from biological systems and human behavior to financial markets and climate systems.
Upon acting intentionally, you break loose from the scale-free power law.
August 28, 2025 at 4:59 PM
21st Century Æ open.substack.com/pub/publiusa...
August 28, 2025 at 2:48 PM
21st Century Æ open.substack.com/pub/publiusa...
“I recognize that Thomas Jefferson and other revered historical figures enslaved black people. This was reprehensible even during their time. But the cruel hypocrisy of...
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August 23, 2025 at 6:18 PM
“I recognize that Thomas Jefferson and other revered historical figures enslaved black people. This was reprehensible even during their time. But the cruel hypocrisy of...
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“All the billions our society has spent enforcing criminal measures against the addict has had the sole result of protecting the peddler's market, artificially inflating his prices and...
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August 23, 2025 at 11:10 AM
“All the billions our society has spent enforcing criminal measures against the addict has had the sole result of protecting the peddler's market, artificially inflating his prices and...
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🎶 “[W]hat you don't hurt can know you[.]” 🎶
—I Am Spoonbender (1998)
—I Am Spoonbender (1998)
August 22, 2025 at 9:10 AM
🎶 “[W]hat you don't hurt can know you[.]” 🎶
—I Am Spoonbender (1998)
—I Am Spoonbender (1998)
Every American must learn to read, write, and play a musical instrument.
Leisurely music ensembles inculcate participatory skills that cross/spillover into civics.
If all Americans knew how to play an instrument within a band, the more likely they'll cooperate when coping with shared difficulties.
Leisurely music ensembles inculcate participatory skills that cross/spillover into civics.
If all Americans knew how to play an instrument within a band, the more likely they'll cooperate when coping with shared difficulties.
August 22, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Every American must learn to read, write, and play a musical instrument.
Leisurely music ensembles inculcate participatory skills that cross/spillover into civics.
If all Americans knew how to play an instrument within a band, the more likely they'll cooperate when coping with shared difficulties.
Leisurely music ensembles inculcate participatory skills that cross/spillover into civics.
If all Americans knew how to play an instrument within a band, the more likely they'll cooperate when coping with shared difficulties.
My face whenever reading X posts:
August 22, 2025 at 5:01 AM
My face whenever reading X posts:
Whispers underneath the drone.
August 22, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Whispers underneath the drone.