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Political Aesthetics; opinion journalism; finding beauty (nytimes); epistemology; anarchism. Views expressed come from your sub-conscious. tls, wsj. splicetoday
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For America's 250th: What’s a Nation-State?

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By Crispin Sartwell, Cory Massimino
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The period from the 1648 Peace of Westphalia to the present has been the period of political ascendency of what’s often termed the “nation-state,” perhaps the successor of the “empire.” The phrase “nation-state” may appear redundant, but it does join two distinct concepts. However, only one of these concepts corresponds to something in reality.
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The Ghost is Back In the Machine

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By Crispin Sartwell
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The nature and source of human consciousness, what the philosopher David Chalmers referred to as "the hard problem," has been getting harder and yet more urgent in this, the era of large language models that can conduct a conversation or debate with you for days on end, and of generative agents that can instantly produce replete images or complex code. These are things that we may have thought to be distinctively human aspects or achievements.
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Time to Retire “Liberalism”

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By Crispin Sartwell
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Theopinion journalism of now (in The New York Times and The Atlantic, at any rate), is dedicated to one question above all: how can we save liberalism? The publications' writers bemoan the death of the "liberal world order" as well as the fate of liberal politics on the US and Europe. Coincidentally, attempts to save liberalism from illiberalism will help the Democratic Party, the task to which the Times is, as you can see every day, ultimately dedicated.
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