#Pluralistic

I follow Advaita Vedanta, a truth I understood before I was introduced to Sanatan Dharma & Hinduism. At the same time I have immense love & devotion to all of
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A Thanksgiving story to warm your pluralistic hearts: It was the early 1990s, the days before Washington DC had meters in taxis. A famine was raging in Somalia. And I
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Why these 12 facts need to understood in larger context:1. Ok, there are no objective tests. But what does that mean? For that u have to understand the numerous &
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The argument "The Constitutional Oath Requires Originalism" is ironic.Because its anti-pluralist/orthodox view of oaths is inconsistent with the original public meaning and constitutional text on oaths.Start with @GGKrishnamoomoo
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With the renewed interest in the birthplace of Rama, a thread on Ramayana. Most of these are excerpts from the essay of the famous Kannada scholar, AK Ramanujam. Read on
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Trump's political innovation is saying the quiet part out loud. It might sound like a gaffe, but he's actually very effectively rallying his troops against democracy to steal the November
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INSIGHTS:A. Silicon Valley salivates at taking over the education sector.B. Technologists are excited about the work and money coming their way as they enable all of us to be on-line,
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There is no shortage of takes about what's going on with Gamestop (and other surging stocks), Robinhood and Reddit's r/wallstreetbets, many of them contradictory - at least on the face
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As far as I can tell, Bertrand Russell's "neutral monism" is just a logically-denatured, reheated misunderstanding of William James' "pure experience" (there's some Mach in there too but go with
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It's a zombie economy. For 40 years, we've eroded the wages of workers and transfered their share of profit and productivity to owners of capital. This is a problem, because
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A great take from @SevaUT Gunitsky on what’s wrong with the fight against Russian disinformation. This is becoming a pretty serious problem, and it’s fed by three key mistakes about
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Grammatical gender, a thread. This has been going on a while, so I thought it worth articulating what I think and why. I respond to some of the earlier discussions,
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We performed usability testing on the intubation box that has gained popularity & recent @NEJM publication https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2007589Thread with our findings (conducted by @petrosoniak & @HumanFact0rz )We used a modif
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1\ What follows is a thread summarizing what we know about COVID-19Others more knowledgeable than I will continue to hash out the details, but at this point the data speaks
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One thing about Bork is that he revealed himself after the fact to be incredibly unsuited to be a Supreme Court justice. Absolute religious zealot. He had no place being
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At first, my instinct was that this wouldn't be great for right-wing populists, which I touched in my @TheAtlantic essay from March: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/coronavirus-killed-revolution/608680/My view on this
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