🎉 Welcome to the London Review of Books, where we expertly transform mundane topics into highbrow snooze fests! 🤓✨ Dive deep into intellectual abyss as David Runciman explores why
#gamification is the existential threat we never knew we cared about. 📚💤
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n10/david-runciman/trivial-pursuits #LondonReviewOfBooks #intellectualDebate #DavidRunciman #existentialThreat #HackerNews #ngated
David Runciman · Trivial Pursuits: Gamification
Any scoring system can be abused once it gets captured. But the fact remains that a scoring system can also be the most...
Oh, look! Another thrilling
#history #lesson on how
#socialism and the free market are basically frenemies with benefits. 🤔📚 Let's plow through pages of pseudo-intellectual drivel to discover that, shockingly, the market still exists! 🙄💸
https://lucasvance.github.io/2100/history/ #freeMarket #politicalEconomy #marketTrends #intellectualDebate #HackerNews #ngatedIntellectual history - 2100
2100: Restoring the American Dream
Oh, look! 📜 Another "Letters of Note" entry where Bertrand Russell, the Swiss Army knife of intellectuals 🧠, flexes his verbal muscles against Oswald Mosley. Because nothing screams "fascinating" like reading the 1962 equivalent of an email rant.📫🤦♂️
https://lettersofnote.com/2016/02/02/every-ounce-of-my-energy/ #LettersOfNote #BertrandRussell #OswaldMosley #IntellectualDebate #1962Rant #Fascism #HackerNews #ngated
Every ounce of my energy
Bertrand Russell, one of the great intellectuals of his generation, was known by most as the founder of analytic philosophy, but he was actually a man of many talents: a pioneering mathematician, a…
Ah, nothing screams intellectual debate like a page that demands
#JavaScript and
#cookies just to reveal its wisdom on birthright citizenship 🍪💻. Clearly, the original meaning of citizenship involves a secret handshake with your browser settings 🤦♂️.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5394605 #intellectualdebate #birthrightcitizenship #techhumor #onlineprivacy #HackerNews #ngatedBy Birth Alone: The Original Meaning of Birthright Citizenship and Subject to the Jurisdiction of the United States
The citizenship clause of the Fourteenth Amendment entrenched birthright citizenship into the Constitution. Building on a recent revisionist scholarly literatur
Patrick Deneen's "Regime Change" offers the latest evidence that conservative "intellectuals" are out of ideas
Commentary: Longtime former Republican on Patrick Deneen and the demise of the conservative intellectual
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