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“A great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by the belief in the virtuousness of work” -- Bertrand Russell on the value of leisure and its "wise use," in a 1932 issue of Harper's (via The Browser)
“If spectacular forms of white supremacy were to end tomorrow, whiteness as a structure of privilege, power and hegemony would continue” -- George Yancy (Emory) on how "white-perpetrated, anti-Black murder is all too acceptable, consistent and inoffensive to the very fabric of this nation"
“Passing is not without costs: it takes a significant emotional and psychological toll, both on individuals who pass and on the friends and family they may leave behind” -- Meena Krishnamurthy (Queen's) on the "burdened virtue" of racial passing
A missing color -- cognitive scientist and artist Allen Tager tries to figure out what explains why violet was largely missing for much of human history
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Some people think that humans matter more than non-human animals because of what we can do, or what we’re like -- but, argues Jeff Sebo (NYU) this "human exceptionalism has it backwards: if anything, we increasingly have capacities-based and relationship-based grounds for prioritising nonhuman animals"
“For any hypothetical future apply the ‘Shakespeare Test,’ which asks: Are there still aspects of Shakespeare’s work reflected in the future civilization?… For do any of us want to live in a world where Shakespeare is obsolete?” -- Erik Hoel on why it's important that the future be human
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“There is a kind of covert moralism that people build into the causal structure of the universe that justifies overly focusing on being the right kind of person, objecting to the right kinds of things, centering the right sorts of people. This amounts to a refusal to look forward” -- Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò (Georgetown) is interviewed about his two recent books
“What you need is to have the classroom as a space where we’re not talking left wing and right wing but offering the learning that students need to be able to come to their own positions and judgments” -- Wendy Brown (Princeton) interviewed about politicization, academic freedom, free speech, and today's students

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