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Intensional Inexistence

Why Ukraine?

There are many reasons to hate Russia, and many reasons to support Ukraine. These may also be reasons to encourage Ukraine to fight on, to…

May 13

May 13

Help the Palestinians? Some illusions, and a long shot.

Many people are looking for words to capture their outrage, disgust, anger, desperation when inundated with reports, often graphic, about…

Nov 16, 2023

Nov 16, 2023

Josh Barro on what’s stupid and immoral

Josh Barro links a ludicrous campus episode of crazed accusations and equally crazed responses with the same bunch of identity types who…

Nov 3, 2023

Nov 3, 2023

Lindsay, Tolerance, and Herbert Marcuse

I’m going to comment on James Lindsay’s New Discourses podcasts on Herbert Marcuse — in particular his doctrine of repressive tolerance.

Oct 7, 2022

Oct 7, 2022

Ukraine’s realities

Ukraine’s realities

Sep 4, 2022

Sep 4, 2022

A problem with Maus

In the wake of the Tennessee school controversy, criticizing Maus gets a response appropriate to torturing puppies. Maus, it seems, is…

Feb 14, 2022

A problem with Maus

Feb 14, 2022

What right does Israel have to defend itself?

In Western capitals, Israel’s right to defend itself is an article of faith. It often comes bundled with another right, indeed an orthodoxy…

May 20, 2021

May 20, 2021

A Trivial Insurrection

74 million people voted for Trump. Something like a few thousand marched up Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol. Of these, a few hundred…

Jan 23, 2021

Jan 23, 2021

The Mohammed cartoon fight isn’t about principles or values.

Some have rightly pointed out that the cartoon-linked violence challenges the sovereignty of the French government. The implications of…

Nov 2, 2020

Nov 2, 2020

Statues

Some say that toppling statues according to the person’s moral badness is ‘rational’ — hence the approval of Julian Baggini’s supposedly…

Jul 4, 2020

Jul 4, 2020

Intensional Inexistence

Intensional Inexistence

For 36 years, Michael Neumann taught philosophy at a Canadian university. He blogs at insufficientrespect.blogspot.fr, mostly on Syria and Egypt.

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