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Why the world has a lot to learn about conservation - and trust - from Indigenous societies
Via: Steve Ott • Anishinaabe - The First People • 13 Comments • 3 Likes • 2 years ago
“Traditional ecological knowledge, or TEK, can encompass science, medicine, ecology, religion and culture - and help protect the environment.”
These examples illustrate how TEK is a set of systems that promote trust through encouraging deference for ancestral ways of dwelling in the world.
Dissents I Would Like to Read in Dobbs
Via: Steve Ott • Op/Ed • 60 Comments • 5 Likes • 2 years ago
“Still, in my view, it is true that the Court is not going to overturn, for example, Loving v. Virginia. The reason for that is that Alito’s opinion...”
This Dobbs majority is part of a long-term political project. If it’s true that we ought not to worry, in the case of a given precedent, that it will also be vulnerable to Alito’s Glucksbergization of the Fourteenth Amendment, then the reason we ought not to worry about it is that we all know...
Why America Can't Separate RELIGION & POLITICS
Via: Steve Ott • Op/Ed • 40 Comments • 6 Likes • 2 years ago
“By now, several generations have grown up without public school prayer, and it’s easy to take church-state separation for granted. But the idea...”
More than two centuries later, presidential candidates must publicly embrace a strong faith if they want to win. An incident in the 2016 race shows how times have changed. In May 2015, Hillary Clinton, a lifelong Methodist, walked into a South Carolina bakery while on the campaign trail and...
How We Fought Each Other at Michigan Law - Heterodox Academy | Heterodox Academy
Via: Steve Ott • Op/Ed • 20 Comments • 3 Likes • 2 years ago
“Andrew Koppelman and Ilya Shapiro: Two law professors with opposing views on most constitutional issues show how, especially in this polarized age,...”
The problem goes far beyond academic freedom or speech on campus, worrying as developments in those areas are for the next generation — especially young lawyers, who’ll face much more challenging situations than speakers who offend them. It’s even more important to have a national reckoning about...
The Moral Collapse Of The Republican Party
Via: Steve Ott • News & Politics • 131 Comments • 8 Likes • 2 years ago • LOCKED
“The Republican Party is not 'unifying.' It is surrendering.”
The party has given away all the high ground it had against the increasingly illiberal and autocratic progressive left by nominating the only person in America who embodies an equally clear disregard for equality under law.
Why the Demand for Fake News is a Far More Serious Problem than the Supply
Via: Steve Ott • Op/Ed • 22 Comments • 10 Likes • 2 years ago
People who know very little about political issues are, by virtue of that ignorance, more susceptible to misinformation. Politicians and interest groups are well aware of this vulnerability, and routinely exploit it.
Is "Whataboutism" Always a Bad Thing?
Via: Steve Ott • Critical Thinkers • 14 Comments • 2 Likes • 2 years ago
“Discussing the crimes of our own country as well as the crimes of others is not always an effort to downplay other countries' crimes—it can be a...”
Quite often, it seems to me, the point of raising such “what about…?” questions isn’t to try to end the conversation. It’s to start a real conversation.
The Five Universal Laws of Human Stupidity
Via: Steve Ott • Other • 21 Comments • 8 Likes • 2 years ago
“We underestimate the stupid, and we do so at our own peril.”
In 1976, a professor of economic history at the University of California, Berkeley published an essay outlining the fundamental laws of a force he perceived as humanity’s greatest existential threat: Stupidity.
Liberalism and the Common Good - M. Anthony Mills
Via: Steve Ott • News & Politics • 5 Comments • 1 Like • 2 years ago
“M. Anthony Mills on why post-liberals need to think about the distinction between the common good and public goods.”
ours is an “extended republic,” as James Madison called it, composed of myriad smaller polities united by a shared commitment to the public interest.
