David Ottlinger

Politics and culture, sometimes at ArcDigital, formerly of The Electric Agora. Not here the darkness, in this twittering world.

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@CathyYoung63 Heaven Can Wait is a great and underseen romcom.

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@katrosenfield Ooh. You read Nietzsche?

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@mattyglesias Indeed, @katrosenfield is fundamental to Western civilization.

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@robertwrighter Congratulations.

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@JonahDispatch The latter. The British insist on Can’t and it’s annoying.

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@ChrisExpTheNews I realized I was literally watching the new RLM while writing this, no joke.

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@ChrisExpTheNews I am brainwashed by RLM but this is still correct.

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@CathyYoung63 @BulwarkOnline Look forward to it and great credit to @BulwarkOnline for supporting this kind of extended, thoughtful, historical writing.

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@robertwrighter @joshua_landis Landis has become one of my favorite guests.

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@ChrisExpTheNews I’ve actually been consistently surprised by how accurate they are. Not accurate, but more than you might expect.

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@collnsmith I want to smash it with a hammer.

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@ChrisExpTheNews Gold star is better.

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@CathyYoung63 @coquetteefawn Language!

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@ChrisExpTheNews Chick tracts are high literature.

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@CathyYoung63 I might marry no. 3.

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@ChristieSmythe It’s by no means confined to the literary world! We have seen similar phenomena often in areas such as education and the arts.

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@RobertTalisse How did I never notice you have an Ikiru poster? Best movie ever.

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@BrianLeiter My point being sane constructivists and strict realists should be united in opposition to post-modernists. The former two groups have an important but reasonable disagreement and have much more in common with each other than they do with the third.

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@BrianLeiter What concerns me is that Boghossian misidentifies his target by making it constructivism tout court. Putnam, Quine, Sellars, Goodman and Kuhn etc defended a limited constructivism but none were interested in undermining empirical science or basic norms of objective inquiry.

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@katrosenfield Cathy criticized you, but never stopped admiring much of your writing and acknowledging that you were wronged. I think she might have been a little hard on you in her criticism but I see no fundamental contradiction.