* An angry atheist shows up at a Catholic hospital needing treatment. * A sexist says he prefers not to have a woman doctor. * A surgeon realizes that his patient is a suspected pedophile. Medical ethics for professionals: Does one treat even blasphemers, misogynists, and perverts to the best of one’s abilities? And the […]
Should racists get medical care? Read More »
“I devoutly believe,” the philosopher William James said, “in the gradual advent of some sort of socialistic equilibrium.” What does that require of us as citizens? That we feel “conscious of our work as an obligatory service to the state. We should be owned, as soldiers are by the army …” [emphasis in the original].
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I will be giving a public talk entitled “The Postmodern Critique of Liberal Education” on October 30 at Clemson University, South Carolina. A description of the talk and location information are in this pdf flyer for the event. My lecture is part of the John W. Pope lecture series, which in the past has featured
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In olden times, the headline would be: “Religious Professor Ejects Student for Stating There Is Only One, Natural World.” Now we get: Feminist Professor Ejects Student from Class for Stating There are Only Two Genders Such progress.
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“The young man who has drunk for the first time from that spring is as happy as if he had found a treasure of wisdom; he is positively enraptured. He will pick up any discourse, draw all its ideas together to make them into one, then take them apart and pull them to pieces. He
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Or was he opposed to capitalism on principle? My 32-minute podcast discussion. Available at various listening sources: YouTube https://www.youtube.com/c/opencollege… Bitchute http://www.bitchute.com/opencollegepo… Apple Podcasts https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/o… SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/opencollegepod… Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/poss… Google Play https://play.google.com/music/m/Iuram… Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2qgnmMD…
Did Keynes Save Capitalism? (Open College podcast) Read More »
Read this WSJ article reporting on Attorney-General Bob Barr’s speech at the University of Notre Dame, and then ask: Are these the premises shared by both left and right? 1. People need morality. 2. Morality can come only from either Church or State. The current right then argues that the government’s doing a bad job,
Either God or the State?? Read More »
A cliché response to calls for a fully free society: But who will build the roads?!? Road networks seem an obvious case where only governments can (a) envision an infrastructure project of national scope, (b) tax millions of people to get the capital needed, and (c) compel or confiscate land from recalcitrant owners to put
Friedrich Engels answers: Who will build the roads? Read More »