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1. AI and agency — a brief conversation between David Papineau (KCL) and Majid D. Beni (METU/ODTU Ankara)
2. “US politics is trapped in a Schmittian vortex, where it is impossible for anyone to seek common ground without being perceived as capitulating to the side of evil” — Justin Smith-Ruiu on the “feedback looping” of political life
3. Not everyone has an “inner voice” — and variations in inner speech have “consequences for our cognition” according to recent research
4. “The most effective guarantee against presidential lawbreaking has been, for over 200 years, the presidential belief that the law—and the system that produces such law—is worth taking seriously” — Michael Blake (Washington) on the importance of virtuous politicians
5. Must public philosophy either “come too late to change ‘righteous minds’” or instead “crush freedom”? — Carlos Fraenkel (McGill) on why one might arrive at that question, and why its answer is “no”
6. Everyone is somewhat conservative — Richard Pettigrew (Bristol) on G.A. Cohen’s defense of a version of conservatism
7. “If you give people a choice between Instagram and Socrates, they will chose Socrates. At least some people do” — music historian and culture critic Ted Gioia is launching a 12-month humanities course, starting with Plato (via Dave Estlund)

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