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Scott Ashworth

@soashworth.bsky.social

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Professor at the University of Chicago. Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, in proportions tbd. He/Him.

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Scott Ashworth @soashworth.bsky.social · 1m

Sounds more like a very helpful cat.

Scott Ashworth @soashworth.bsky.social · 15m

My actual question for @nytimes.com isn’t how they decide which individual studies to cover, but why they cover individual studies at all.

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 14h

Courtesy of colleagues at Penn

A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s 1754 engraving in the Pennsylvania Gazette, published in Philadelphia, in an effort to foster cooperation among the various colonies against the tyrant king of Britain, with the American colonies replaced by the nine universities selected for special collaboration opportunities

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Scott Ashworth @soashworth.bsky.social · 17h

Or comics.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

most normies are mad at thiel for being incomprensible

we are mad at thiel for not understanding philosophy and theology

Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 1d

I DEEPLY resent that I have to take seriously the stunted, juvenile political and theological opinions of Peter Thiel

Scott Ashworth @soashworth.bsky.social · 20h

panel for our newest comics critic, peter thiel

Scott Ashworth @soashworth.bsky.social · 1d

Taylor can only dream of Whitney’s charisma as a performer.

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Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 1d

it’s October 11th, which means that nine years ago this little essay went live … did it change my life? yes, and most definitely not how I expected.

so let that be a lesson for you this Coming Out Day: whatever you think the future holds, it does not. life comes at you, for worse and for better.

One Hundred and Sixty Four Days

Part 1 of an ongoing series. Follow up with Part 2 here . If you like my writing, please consider a donation to my Patreon . It’...

whenwillthehurtingstop.blogspot.com

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Scott Ashworth @soashworth.bsky.social · 2d

Monster as metaphor is peak middlebrow imo

Scott Ashworth @soashworth.bsky.social · 2d

Wonder what that would do to the value of my copy of Egalitarian Perspectives—I picked up a copy inscribed by Glenn at a secondhand bookstore in New Orleans a few years ago.

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Steven Durlauf @durlauf.bsky.social · 3d

If I were the social planner, the next Nobel Prize in Economics would be awarded to Samuel Bowles, Glenn Loury, and John Roemer. Their work is foundational to the modern study of inequality, addressing normative and positive dimensions of inequality with profound insight.