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Tomlinson Professor of Political Theory, Chair of Political Science, Associate member of Philosophy, Coordinator of Research Group on Constitutional Studies, McGill. Senior Fellow, Niskanen Center.
The conference as a whole was under the Chatham House Rule, but I assume I'm allowed to disclose my own attendance and to say that this one public session, an exchange between @jamellebouie.net and George Will, was a real treat to be able to attend.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bhz...
YouTube video by Institute for Humane Studies
[actual, albeit slight, LOL]
Greenhouse Gas Emissions At "All-Time High," Pushing Planet To Its Limits
www.iflscience.com/greenhouse-g...
The world is blazing through the remaining carbon budget with little sign of an exit strategy.
In this category— filling in the literary gaps, which is maybe 1/3 or 1/4 of my fiction reading these days— I think the last few have been
Swift, Last Orders The Aeneid Vargas Llosa, The Feast of the Goat Eco, Island of the Day Before Murakami, IQ84 Rushdie, Victory City
Entirely different book. Updike’s “Rabbit” is a human man’s nickname, not an actual rabbit.
I am very well-versed in Le Guin
Nothing distracts from the Epstein files like talking about the hotness of an actress fifty years your junior.
Three Chiefs of Staff, four former Shin Bet Directors, three former Mossad Chiefs, five former Police Commissioners, and four former Heads of Military Intelligence in an unprecedented joint statement:
“End the war in Gaza. Bring the hostages home - all at once!”
Right! I remember getting the overall sense over the course of GoT that the Targaryens had been gone for generations and being very puzzled by the occasional reminders that it had just happened.
