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Victor Caston

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Philosophy & Classical Studies, University of Michigan. In case anyone was in doubt, my opinions are my own.

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Victor Caston @vcaston.bsky.social · Aug 1

Unbelievably, @nehgov.bsky.social funded our Summer Institute:

Aristotle and Contemporary Philosophy of Mind
Directors: Jose Bermudez, Victor Caston

At Texas A&M, first two weeks of June.

More details on applications to follow.

National Endowment for the Humanities @nehgov.bsky.social · Aug 1

NEH Announces $34.79 Million in Grants for 97 Humanities Projects tinyurl.com/ympbr56k

NEH Announces $34.79 Million for 97 Humanities Projects

Victor Caston @vcaston.bsky.social · 33m

A century earlier!

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 1d

Is this making America great again? There is no honor here. No justice. No decency. No law. Just force.

Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 1d

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 9h

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

Victor Caston @vcaston.bsky.social · 8h

interesting — will look for the Brahms

Victor Caston @vcaston.bsky.social · 8h

Listening to Bruckner's 3rd and 4th Symphony from this set (performances from the 90s) and am truly impressed at the range, poise and delicacy of the pace and rhythms — not words you would apply to many Bruckner peformances.

Sound is terrific too.

@severson.bsky.social @andrewbowie.bsky.social

Bruckner – Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra - 11 Symphonies

View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2006 Box Set release of "11 Symphonies" on Discogs.

www.discogs.com

Victor Caston @vcaston.bsky.social · 8h

Deserves to be watched and shared. Rank cruelty and aggression.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 10h

ICE GOONS, laughing and pepper spraying Pastor after shooting him in the face with pepper balls, proceeded to gas the crowd who were trying to protect him.

Victor Caston @vcaston.bsky.social · 9h

Ah, I was overthinking it. Yes, of course, that makes much more sense.

Victor Caston @vcaston.bsky.social · 9h

Why is 'their' a clue? The antecedent is singular, but collective.

Victor Caston @vcaston.bsky.social · 9h

From 1856, based on travels in 1832–33, meeting with Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Carlyle.

Victor Caston @vcaston.bsky.social · 9h

Ha! No, later.

Victor Caston @vcaston.bsky.social · 9h

Nice sleuthing, but earlier

Victor Caston @vcaston.bsky.social · 9h

Which is all a way of saying translation is almost inevitably interpretation — there is no "transparent" way of translating a text faithfully, without construing it and so interpreting it.

"Traduttore, traditore."

If you rely solely on translations, you are relying on others' interpretations.

Victor Caston @vcaston.bsky.social · 10h

To get a sense of the difficulty take a look at "translations" in what Barnes called "Eek" (neither Eng nor Gk): his 1st ed of Post. An. or Furth's translation of Zeta, Eta, Theta.

Victor Caston @vcaston.bsky.social · 10h

If you've ever had to write a translation, you'd see the problem straightaway: you must make choices at every step of the way that leave out possibilities clearly there in the original. When it comes to philosophy, it's often critical.

Victor Caston @vcaston.bsky.social · 10h

I don't think it's a question of being at a higher level than the best translators. It's rather the forced choices any translation, even the best, must face: the original often can be construed in a number of ways, or contains multiple connotations, absent in a translation.

Victor Caston @vcaston.bsky.social · 10h

That's just the point: a translator is forced to make choices, typically imperfect ones, however good a translation it is; while the original doesn't and contains a range of possibilities otherwise cast aside.

Victor Caston @vcaston.bsky.social · 10h

So clear, so straightforward

Victor Caston @vcaston.bsky.social · 10h

lovely

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 11h

Street art in LA:
Guardians of Pedophiles

Victor Caston @vcaston.bsky.social · 11h

They're openly toying with extra-Constitutional measures.

Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 11h

Steve Bannon: I think there are many different alternatives we’ll roll out after the midterms to make sure President Trump is on the ballot in 2028. And if he’s on the ballot, he’ll win.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22h

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 22h

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Lee Drutman @leedrutman.bsky.social · 17h

Thermostatic public opinion, reacting against the governing regime, like old faithful.
globalaffairs.org/research/pub...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12h

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 14h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

Victor Caston @vcaston.bsky.social · 12h

A reasonable guess, but no!

Victor Caston @vcaston.bsky.social · 14h

Commendable