The Algernon Project
Daniel GolliherLiberal Arts for the Twenty-first Century.
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Brief Aesthetic Notes on Some Comparative Reading
I’m doing some comparative reading. I've read Parlor Politics (2000) before, but not Revolutionary Mothers (2005). I’ve only just started the latter.
The figure on Revolutionary Mothers's cover is Abigail Hinman, who (so goes the legend) g...
Applications are Open for Foundations of the Liberal Arts, Cohort 2
Applications for Foundations of the Liberal Arts, running running January–March 2026, are now open until January 15! Apply here. Foundations of the Liberal Arts will give you the mental and physical habits needed to read, memorize, and reci...
"Seeing" the World
Everyone is familiar with optical illusions, where the nature of a visual presentation seems to “trick” the brain into seeing something else.
The “rabbit-duck illusion”
And when someone shows you an optical illusion, you’re primed to “fi...
The Observe/Consume Dichotomy
This was originally a long tweet / note.
“The algorithm [1]” is very useful to observe, but dangerous and net-negative to merely consume.
There is a consume/observe dichotomy in algorithmic content just like the use/mention dichotomy in...
The Operational Virtue of Integrity
I have always had a horror of words that are not translated into deeds, of speech that does not result in action — in other words, I believe in realizable ideals and in realizing them, in preaching what can be practiced and then in practici...
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