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The Gates Foundation, Global Health, and Domination: A Republican Critique of Transnational Philanthropy
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https://t.co/n5n9Wga8Lx
"When you're doing philosophy, don't be afraid to sound dumb. [...] Some of the the most successful philosophical interventions that I've witnessed have been a matter of pointing out that the emperor's not wearing any clothes."
โG.A. Cohen, How to do Political Philosophy
I got this book this week. Its pages are already curling. This wasnโt a cheap dime store pulp novel. @mitpress needs to produce better books for what they charge.
Trump calls it โrealism,โ but Morgenthau warned realism isnโt amoralโit demands prudence and restraint. Power without ethics breeds hubris and collapse. Athens learned this in the Peloponnesian War. Will America? #Ethics#ForeignPolicy
https://t.co/FjAc6Xggh0
Trump calls it โrealism,โ but Morgenthau warned realism isnโt amoralโit demands prudence and restraint. Power without ethics breeds hubris and collapse. Athens learned this in the Peloponnesian War. Will America? #Ethics#ForeignPolicy
https://t.co/FjAc6Xggh0
Me: This article is explicitly not about X; lots of people right about X. Iโm writing about Y.
Reviewer 2: Cool, Y is really interesting and important, but you have you thought about writing about Xโฆ I write about X.
Me:
Here's a piece of literature by me, suitable for seventeen-year-olds in Alberta schools, unlike -- we are told -- The Handmaid's Tale. (Sorry, kids; your Minister of Education thinks you are stupid babies.)
John and Mary were both very, very good children. They never picked their noses or had bowel movements or zits. They grew up and married each other, and produced five perfect children without ever having sex. Although they claimed to be Christian, they paid no attention to what Jesus actually said about the poor and the Good Samaritan and forgiving your enemies and such; instead, they practised selfish rapacious capitalism, because they worshipped Ayn Rand. (Though they ignored the scene in The Fountainhead where โwelcomed rapeโ is advocated, because who wants to dwell, and also that would have involved sex and would de facto be pornographic. Well, it kind of is, eh?) Oh, and they never died, because who wants to dwell on, you know, death and corpses and yuk? So they lived happily ever after. But while they were doing that The Handmaidโs Tale came true and Danielle Smith found herself with a nice new blue dress but no job. The end.
After 3 years of education focussed part-time work and full-time parenting, I finally submitted a substantial new bit of research.
I look forward to the desk rejection.
Every member of Congress who campaigned on reducing government spending and then immediately voted for the biggest debt increase in history should hang their head in shame!
And they will lose their primary next year if it is the last thing I do on this Earth.
"Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?"
"A republic, if you can keep it."
This exchange between Elizabeth Willing Powell and Benjamin Franklin underpins this analysis of democratic backsliding that I've written for @ethics_centre
https://t.co/LPHEz5d98f
I for one am looking forward to Pierre Poilievre and Liz Truss doing a joint presentation at CPAC on how to ruin your political reputation in 42 days or less!