Seth Chalmer

Dad. @ChalmerRachel’s husband. Orthodox Jew obsessed with religion, history, theatre, & philosophy. |

[Seth Chalmer @sethchalmer]

Please help if you can, please share, and please pray for the healing of Eli ben Yehudis. https://t.co/24NRs0Di1q

[Seth Chalmer @sethchalmer]

@DouthatNYT @dilanesper In PAX, Tom Holland notes that in pre-Christian Rome they found it highly odd that two provincial peoples, the Jews and the Germans, shunned infanticide. Later, Christianity would spread this niche taboo much further.

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@DerekPederson3 @shanewallick From: https://t.co/DHzNraVVKe

[Seth Chalmer @sethchalmer]

@DerekPederson3 @shanewallick I call the bluff of that thought experiment. Yes, you have to stay in the hospital even if kidnapped, & meanwhile we arrest the kidnapper.

[Megan McArdle @asymmetricinfo]

The allegations against Platner are better corroborated than the allegations against Brett Kavanaugh were and it will be interesting to see who manages to be consistent in their beliefs about such things.

[Seth Chalmer @sethchalmer]

What was the communist statistician’s goal?

To socialize the medians of production.

[Seth Chalmer @sethchalmer]

@JoshuaLWatson Whereof one cannot speak (bark), one must be silent (roll over). — Wittcanine

[Seth Chalmer @sethchalmer]

@ShaisTaub And don’t miss Molech Childcare Center a short drive from campus.

[Seth Chalmer @sethchalmer]

@JoshuaLWatson Okay but just try to use a capo on the piano.

[Seth Chalmer @sethchalmer]

“An abstract word is like a box with a false bottom: you can put in any ideas you please and take them out again without anyone being the wiser.” — Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

[Seth Chalmer @sethchalmer]

@marshallrichrds You could also try closing the door.

[Andrew Fleischman @ASFleischman]

The sort of guy who cheats on his wife cheats at other things.

Conscientiousness is consistent across a person's lifetime.

It's a perfectly fine reason to think less of a candidate for public office.

[Seth Chalmer @sethchalmer]

@eigenrobot (Screenshot from https://t.co/PkorwNE27y )

[Seth Chalmer @sethchalmer]

@eigenrobot The largest number exists and is defined as wherever the most persistent person left off in this exercise.

[Seth Chalmer @sethchalmer]

Question at the intersection of interfaith relations & technology: Has Magnifica Humanitas caused a sudden spike in Jews learning sefer Nehemiah large enough for @SefariaProject to detect?

[Seth Chalmer @sethchalmer]

@cafreiman No. I’m with you in general that market capitalism is extremely important and powerful but there are also some things where the masses need guidance toward virtues they wouldn’t freely choose to prioritize, but should. (Yes even against their wills.) Libraries are public virtue.

[Ross Douthat @DouthatNYT]

You should read Yuval Levin's reading of the papal encyclical:
https://t.co/iVO0MZFiOw

[Seth Chalmer @sethchalmer]

A good article by Z. Wainer, I. Kurtz, & @dpkenter: https://t.co/e9WdtjcpeH

I can't help thinking that it should be *some part* of the communal conversation to note that some troubles keeping men invested in Jewish life may derive from the choice of gender-egal synagogues.

[Seth Chalmer @sethchalmer]

My defense of Orthodox gender roles in synagogue does NOT appeal to the legal technicalities. Rather, it explores the social goods that seem to ultimately result from the gender restrictions that are not, I admit (on an individualist level) fair. https://t.co/L0e9e3fyuP

[Seth Chalmer @sethchalmer]

@JoshuaLWatson Okay, but you might just be an alligator dreaming that you’re a philosopher.

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@DRabbit679 @DerekPederson3 C is a lot faster than we can do with spaceships.