Nature Travel Wanderings
“He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that”
– John Stuart Mill
From On Liberty (1859). Mill’s point: holding a true opinion isn’t the same as understanding it. If you can’t argue the other side in its strongest form — not the caricature your side passes around — you don’t actually know why yours wins. You’ve just inherited a conclusion. Belief untested by real opposition, Mill says, hardens into dead dogma: a formula recited, not a conviction held.
Part of me wanted Paxton to win this Republican primary. Because Paxton is such a noxious individual, Talarico has a better chance of beating him than Cornyn. But the results, Paxton won with 64% of the vote, have deeply saddened…
Read more“Has there ever been an episode of presidential corruption so blatant and threatening to constitutional order? Certainly not in modern times. President Trump’s Justice Department is using taxpayer money to create a $1.8 billion political slush fund.” “The fund’s existence…
Read more“On what planet is our reactionary Supreme Court living? Do we have a court that would deny the universally accepted facts that Blacks in the South were denied a representative vote before and after the 15th Amendment of 1870 and before and…
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A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients with Down syndrome, dementia and other disabilities whose parents or relatives receive SNAP benefits.
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Read moreDefenders of revolutionary socialism often point to Cuba as proof that the model can work — a small nation that stood up to empire, eliminated illiteracy, and built a healthcare system despite decades of embargo. Those achievements are real. But…
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