Alexander Schmidt

Historian of ideas, @vanderbiltU, dix-huitièmiste, appreciates sociable unsociability of cycling, Schiller’s Aesthetic Education of Man,@penguinclassics 🇺🇦

[Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk @IlkoKowalczuk]

In Polen tobt eine heftige geschichtspolitische - keine wissenschaftliche ! - Debatte um dieses Buch. Wer sich einen Eidnruck verschaffen will - hier gibt es einen kostenlosen Download: https://t.co/qCVyg9XHZF

[Tim Howles @AimeTim]

"The Christian Philosophy of Jacques Maritain"
Jason West
https://t.co/LrGKyKEEzG

[Samuel Moyn 🔭 @samuelmoyn]

Gosh I wish I could get a copy of the bound proofs

[Athanasius @Athanasius_45]

An Ancient Greek yes-man was a συγκατανευσιφάγος (one feeding by nodding along).

[Daragh Grant @daraghjgrant]

Asad Haider wrote a wonderful essay on Stuart Hall for @thepointmag. It is well worth revisiting, and not only as a testament to how much we have lost with his untimely passing. My condolences to Haider’s family and friends. https://t.co/uxTxtVZ2Ua

[Alexander Schmidt @alexchalkeus]

@DKThomp It’s basically the equivalent to what rich people did during the Vietnam war: make a friendly doctor get your kid off the draft.

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

This is a great piece with some mind-boggling statistics.

- At Brown and Harvard, more than 20% of undergraduates are registered as disabled
- At Amherst: more than 30 percent
- At Stanford: nearly 40 percent

Soon, many of these schools "may have more students receiving [disability] accommodations than not, a scenario that would have seemed absurd just a decade ago."

As students and their parents have recognized the benefits of claiming disability—extended time on tests, housing accommodations, etc—the rates of disability at colleges, and especially at elite colleges, has exploded.

America used to stigmatize disability too severely. Now elite institutions reward it too liberally. It simply does not make any sense to have a policy that declares half of the students at Stanford cognitively disabled and in need of accommodations.

[Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins @daniel_dsj2110]

The number of writers in France almost tripled between 1757 and 1789.

Lisa Hilton on Robert Darnton’s new book: https://t.co/pzTY9eb57U

[Branko Milanovic @BrankoMilan]

"One of the most devastating objections to the Kantian conception of dignity is the idea that morality isn’t grounded in reason or freedom but in power relations—that moral norms are just the product of domination, dressed up as universal law.
I’ve always found that a very hard proposition to argue against, except perhaps by pointing out its consequences: that if you take it seriously, you’re left with a kind of moral nihilism that makes any motivation to act pointless."

[Nicholas Mulder @njtmulder]

Out next summer with Allen Lane in the UK and Little, Brown in the US and available for pre-order now: https://t.co/U3u2kFCPCY

[Alexander Schmidt @alexchalkeus]

@WilfredFrost @nfergus How does the Busan meeting square with / alter the diagnosis that US and China have entered a second Cold War, acc to @nfergus?

[The Point Magazine @the_point_mag]

New online: Robert Pippin, @AgnesCallard, @jonnythakkar, @BaskinJon, @dadsein, Ben Jeffery, @TBartscherer, Laura Baudot, Leon Wieseltier and J.M. Coetzee remember Jonathan Lear.
https://t.co/0EsmSsZV4Q

[Michael Lazarus @Mblaz39]

Sure is Hegelian news

[BoschBot @boschbot]

Temptation of St Anthony

[Alexander Schmidt @alexchalkeus]

One of the best of the now many essays on the risks of A.I. in (higher education) teaching. Highly recommend it. #writingisthinking

[Anastasia Berg @a_n_a_berg]

Reposting my op-ed on the grave threat of AI use to students’ cognitive development from earlier today with a much more perspicuous headline 🙏

https://t.co/eLgmgjxYin

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

Images of dead Russian soldiers don't work, neither do appeals to human rights, etc. What shocks Russians the most is a sense that the state isn't in control, writes @peterpomeranzev and Sviatoslav Hnizdovskyi. These also provide moments for the West to deepen those shocks: https://t.co/1ejcHXhS2a

[Yaroslav Trofimov @yarotrof]

The war in Ukraine may last for years to come, even as its nature changes with long-range strikes. “It will either end with the collapse of the Russian imperial project, or with the disappearance of an independent Ukrainian state.” My gloomy analysis in @WSJ https://t.co/79HjYFTFvj

[Tom Ashbyトム アシュビー @tomaashby]

Smith's copies of Hume and Burke

[Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine]

artificial intelligence has completed the system of german idealism

[Tom Ashbyトム アシュビー @tomaashby]

Adam Smith's copy of Hobbes's "Leviathan"