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Dr Minhas
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"Energizing and brilliant."

@newrepublic.com reviews "Ruth Asawa and the Artist-Mother at Midcentury":
Ruth Asawa Connected Everything
A remarkable retrospective shows how Asawa’s art practice emerged from the broken rhythms of daily life, overlapping with family and with community.
newrepublic.com
December 19, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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"Strange Attractor gives us a portrait of the man as madcap autodidact, voraciously well read in ethnobotanical lore, hermetic occultism, C.G. Jung ... and, not least, philosophy."

@washingtonpost.com reviews Graham St John's new biography of Terence McKenna: www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
December 19, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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The newest issue of the Journal of Modern History features a review on Katlyn Marie Carter's Democracy in Darkness, noting it as "[A] fine achievement."
December 19, 2025 at 10:01 PM
About to complete my book!
October 8, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Reviewer Graham McAleer praises True Conservatism as “a fresh conservative theory, . . . superbly [framing] politics between Enlightenment rule of law and the humanist’s refined liberty.”
When Scientism Meets Humanism – Graham McAleer
Anthony Kronman tries to infuse the warmth of the Enlightenment into the rationalist universe of Spinoza.
lawliberty.org
August 16, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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"A thoughtful investigation of one of the central issues of our time." — @brianchristian.bsky.social

In "AI Fairness," Derek Leben draws on traditional philosophical theories of fairness to provide the first comprehensive account of algorithmic justice: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255236... #OpenAccess
August 16, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Walking through a second hand book store should feel like you’re flying through the trench run on the Death Star.
August 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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The least-understood part of the Internet, the stack, connects the digital and physical worlds. Words like "cloud" & "virtual" blind us to reality — the Internet is a physical thing. In "The Internet Stack," Amrit Tiwana explores this reality. Out Sept. 16th: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255362...
July 25, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Michael Roth, author of The Student, was recently profiled by the Chicago Tribune, as a strong and clear voice defending higher education.
John T. Shaw: Wesleyan University’s president stands up for higher education as it’s under assault
The president of Wesleyan University has taken the more honorable route against President Donald Trump’s attacks on higher education.
www.chicagotribune.com
July 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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💡 Researchers from @durham-university.bsky.social and ‪Iowa State University‬, publishing in politicsgenderj.bsky.social, reveal how women politicians are judged more harshly than men when they deviate from their party norms.

🔗 cup.org/4lKbEN0

@cambup-polsci.cambridge.org
Research reveals women politicians are judged more harshly
When women political candidates deviate from expectations or the views of their party, they are judged far more harshly than men by voters.
cup.org
July 25, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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It’s been so smoky grey here I’m missing these sunsets 🌅 #sunset
July 17, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Beautiful early morning moon shooting rays over the trees in Minnesota ✨
#Photography
#Photographer
#BlueSkyArt
#EastCoastKin
#Moon
#Sky
#Nature
#Minnesota
July 17, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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Good morning BS friends! ✨🌳
July 17, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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Just a little guy. Photo from my collection, no date/info.
July 17, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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In today’s @latimes.com print edition: My column about how Hollywood can help fight global warming, as seen on Grey’s Anatomy: www.latimes.com/environment/...
June 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Our mental and ecological health are linked. Recognizing this interdependence can change how we relate to the world and to ourselves, writes Tim Morton:
Your Mind Is Part of the Ecosystem
Our mental and ecological health are linked. Recognizing this interdependence can change how we relate to the world and to ourselves.
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
June 20, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Idi Amin ruled Uganda between 1971 and 1979, inflicting tremendous violence on the people of the country. Drawing on recently uncovered archival material, Derek Peterson reconstructs the political logic of the era, focusing on the ordinary people who made the government work.
June 20, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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June 21, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Meet our authors at Riffraff Bookstore + Bar in Providence!

📅 Sat, June 28 at 6 PM: @hzeavin.bsky.social discusses "Mother Media"
📅 Tues, July 1 at 7 PM: @riabrodell.bsky.social launches "More Butch Heroes"

Link for full event line-up: riffraffpvd.com/events/ 📚💙 #indiebookstore
June 20, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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"The brain is much less like a machine than it is like the murmurations of a flock of starlings or an orchestral symphony," writes Luiz Pessoa, author of "The Entangled Brain":
How the human brain is like a murmuration of starlings | Aeon Essays
The brain is much less like a machine than it is like the murmurations of a flock of starlings or an orchestral symphony
aeon.co
June 5, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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I don’t know who needs this but, stop mistaking inconsistency for potential.
June 5, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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Good Thursday morning

Wishing you large moments of creativity and courage...
June 5, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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Last day of school. Last day of elementary school for my son. And he decided he wanted to wear a sweatshirt of mine that almost fits.

I'm going to go cry now.
a dog sitting on a beach looking out over the ocean
Alt: a dog sitting on a beach looking out over the ocean
media.tenor.com
May 29, 2025 at 3:23 PM