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Peter A. Shulman 📚 Profile picture
Aug 7, 2022
This is the problem with all abortion debate: it just boils down to metaphysics that is not amenable to the tools of traditional liberal analysis.
Anyway, in this view, we were all pre-born souls for 13.8 billion years. Didn’t miss anything.
And you can always just invent a “an aborted soul just happily goes back int the queue for the next birth. Why not?
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May 10, 2022
I wanted to learn more about protests at judge's homes. Here are some examples of what I found: protesting a San Antonio federal judge for imprisoning a tax protestor, September, 1984. In a sign of how the world has changed, the paper helpfully published his address.
Hare Krishnas protesting at a San Francisco Superior Court's judge for placing a member under a temporary conservatorship requested by her mother. The story briefly gets into the coming legal wrangling.
That one was from January of 1977, btw
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Apr 29, 2022
I can't speak to any of the substance of this particular case, but this is one hell of a defense from NYU.
The idea that MIT would strip tenure from a senior faculty member without some form of due process is pretty strange!
I am really unclear how NYU thinks it will be able to learn more than MIT did about violations of MIT policy in an MIT lab.
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Mar 20, 2022
So there has been much discussion, and mostly criticism of the NYT's editorial the other day about "free speech," especially its opening paragraph appealing earnestly to a right that has never before actually existed nytimes.com/2022/03/18/opi…
This terrific thread by @tzimmer_history looks at the roots of the present debate, such as it is, in white conservatives' sudden facing of criticism for things they had long taken for granted & the new pushback against "view from nowhere" journalism
@tzimmer_history Last night, I had shared several polls clearly showing that as long as there has been public opinion polling (and, I promise you, even before) Americans believed in various limits to free speech
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Mar 20, 2022
At some level, I share the bewilderment, even as someone who has studied this history for over twenty years. But this claim isn’t ~exactly~ right. There were 19th century Americans who saw the collapse of various plant and animal species and called upon the government to act.
Brian Donahue has a wonderful book examining pre-industrial agriculture in Massachusetts and how it developed in a way that incorporated conservation for future use; this was ultimately disrupted by the market revolution amazon.com/dp/0300123698/…
My own book work now is looking at forest conservation, which the federal government took a hand in as early as the 1790s to preserve certain critical tree species for naval ship construction. It was a significant political issue in the 1820s and 1840s.
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Mar 20, 2022
"Americans are losing hold of a fundamental right as citizens of a free country: the right to speak their minds and voice their opinions in public without fear of being shamed or shunned."
And yet
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