Pavlos Papadopoulos

@pleonidasp

Assistant professor of humanities | Political philosophy and liberal education

Lander, WY
Joined September 2017

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    I've just uploaded outlines of some of the key texts I've been using in my History of Liberal Arts Education course. The course focuses on the ongoing (20th–21st c.) revival of liberal education in response to the research university and deeper doubts about the modern project.

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  2. Jan 9

    Plato's parody of war propaganda in the Menexenus is so much better than today's real war propaganda, that it is almost inspiring.

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  3. Jan 8

    Gmail understands I’ve just been made an offer I can’t refuse

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  4. Jan 7

    Pace , we are not brains in vats. The sooner we remember this, and restructure our lives and institutions in accordance with the truth that we are psychosomatic unities, the sooner we can repair (or prevent) the dehumanizing damages wrought by tech addiction.

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  5. Jan 7

    “To these young people, direct, unmediated human contact was experienced as ill-mannered at best and strange at worst.”

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  6. Jan 5

    I’ve been seeing a lot of people use the w word and the p word. I do not think they mean what you think they mean.

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  7. Jan 4

    Spengler: "Neither Iran nor the US has good choices here. [...] It seems clear that Iran was taken aback by the ferocity of America’s response to the embassy attack. Iran now has to devise a response whose outcome is extremely difficult to calculate."

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  8. Jan 4

    Well, here is Codevilla himself. He is not impressed.

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  9. Jan 4

    Thus far, the assassination of Soleimani & broader campaign against PMF seems much closer to Codevilla's post-9/11 recommendation—swift, retributive punishment of the enemy's ruling class to restore honor/fear and deter further attacks—than the War on Terror as waged since 2001.

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  10. Jan 2

    happy new decade from the ranch

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  11. Jan 3

    ...to remake elite education we would do well to look to the tradition of liberal education that once set the tone in our colonies and early republic and that still flourishes [in nooks and crannies] today...," writes

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  12. HNI's on the importance of solitude for community, creativity and leadership, and how screens are increasingly crowding it out, especially for poor children:

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  13. Jan 3

    Insofar as the American people have spoken on this topic—which they have only fitfully because our leaders have masterfully avoided political deliberation about foreign policy for decades—they have consistently said: “Why should we ‘stay in the Middle East,’ whatever that means?”

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  14. Jan 3

    When was the last time a single drone strike (or its technologically-primitive equivalent) three years into a presidency could be described as that president’s “most significant use of military force to date”?

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  15. Jan 2

    "I too when I was young had a tongue that was inactive but an arm that was active; but when I come to put it to the proof I see that it is the tongue, not actions, that rules in all things for mortals." — Odysseus in Sophocles's Philoctetes

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  16. Jan 2

    Suleimani waxes Jüngerian on the "paradise" of the battlefield

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  17. Jan 2

    Revisiting this 2013 article on Suleimani. "To save his Iranian empire in Syria and Lebanon, he has helped fuel a Sunni-Shiite conflict that threatens to engulf the region for years to come—a war that he appears happy to wage."

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  18. Jan 2

    The last traces of the Marie Kondo method of organizing our babies’ clothes have nearly been effaced. My wife folded everything by the Konmari method, but I have done most of the laundry ever since. Education relative to the regime is a necessary condition for its perpetuation.

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  19. Jan 2

    Hey there that’s (the other campus of) my alma mater

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  20. Jan 2
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  21. Jan 2

    precision, you shall no more be able to pierce him, than to penetrate the hard shell of a tortoise with a rye straw." — Abraham Lincoln, Address to the Washington Temperance Society of Springfield, Illinois, February 22, 1842

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