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Associate Professor of Philosophy Boston University https://www.daniel-star.net https://dstar.photodeck.com
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I’m finding it difficult to believe that these are both posts on the official White House .gov website, but they are.

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A seventh OUP book cover featuring one of my photos. www.daniel-star.net/photos.html

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‘DOGE’ is pronounced “douche,” right?

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Paul Krugman on Trump, Energy and MAGA Brain open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

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Early morning photographs from Stowe, Vermont (taken in late December 2024). #photography

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With Churro in Stowe, Vermont.

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"It is a spectacle of slaughter. All unfolding in plain sight, livestreamed and posted by Palestinian citizens and journalists, witnessed by outsiders, and described by Israelis themselves."

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In the Boston centered novel “Moonlight Mile,” Dennis Lehane has one of his characters visit Neptune Oyster Bar in the North End for a meal and the character declares they have the best lobster roll in New England. I agree. Seminannual lunch after teaching is completed.

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Our teen pup Churro, sunbathing this morning.

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Mood.

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A recent photo taken in Munich, and a variation on it.

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Our department has been forced to suspend PhD admissions this year (and just for this year). I have commented on Daily Nous as DGS, and another faculty member has anonymously provided more details.

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go.bsky.app/VZhoKVS

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I have a new article out on love. It’s about why we should love people for their valuable qualities and why the importance of grace is often over-estimated. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Enjoyed visiting LMU, Munich this week to give a talk. Also enjoyed visiting a few art museums.

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“On Oct. 27, *three weeks* into Israel’s punishing counterattack in Gaza, top Biden officials privately told a small group assembled at the White House what they would not say in public: Israel was regularly bombing buildings without solid intelligence that they were legitimate military targets.”

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For me, 2023 was a year in which I especially enjoyed listening to classical music. Here are my four favorite classical piano albums released this year.

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Winter sunlight falling on my photographs of a summer sunset in Turkey.

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"Grossly disproportionate". Nir Eyal on Israel's actions in Gaza...

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Last week, I took a couple of portrait photos of my BU colleagues Sunil Sharma and Roberta Micallef. Here they are.

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