A new episode of my podcast series, produced by Possibly Correct out of Toronto. Audio: iTunes Stitcher YouTube Topics and times: The decline of slavery as a moral achievement // History: Slavery practiced everywhere before modernity // The internal African slave society and trades // The Atlantic trade and where the slaves went // Early […]
The Stain of Slavery [Open College] Read More »
My second discussion with Professor Peterson ranges over postmodernism, language, power, and what makes for a genuine education. (To skip the first intro., go to 4:35 in the video.) A podcast version is here. Our first discussion (2017) is here at YouTube or here in transcription.
For weekend viewers: Jordan Peterson and I discuss real education Read More »
“Anybody who does not obey the orders will be treated by the others as a quadruped …. All men will work; they will regard themselves as laborers attached to one workshop whose efforts will be directed to guide human intelligence according to my divine foresight. The Supreme Council of Newton will direct their works.” (Source:
Socialism in 1803—Saint-Simon’s religious-authoritarian version Read More »
A podcast version is here. Our first discussion (2017) is here at YouTube or here in transcription.
Second Jordan Peterson interview — video released Read More »
Socialism in 1928 — George Bernard Shaw’s “kindly” version: “Socialism means equality of income or nothing. Under socialism you would not be allowed to be poor. You would be forcibly fed, clothed, lodged, taught, and employed whether you liked it or not. If it were discovered that you had not character and industry enough to
Socialism in 1928—George Bernard Shaw’s “kindly” version Read More »
Otto von Bismarck, the Chancellor of Germany, when he was arguing for his 1883 Welfare-State law proposals: “That the state should assist its needy citizens to a greater degree than before is not only a Christian and humanitarian duty, of which the state apparatus should be fully conscious: it is also a task to be
Bismarck on Welfare and Dependence on the State Read More »
Three data points: 1. The 1973 Roe v. Wade case was decided 7-2 by an all-male court. 2. A 2018 Gallup poll showed statistically small-to-trivial differences between men and women’s beliefs about whether abortion should be legal in all cases, illegal in all cases, or legal/illegal in some cases. 3. A 2018 Pew survey also
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Professor Tara Smith’s fine book on the philosophy of law, Judicial Review in an Objective Legal System, was published by Cambridge University Press. The journal Reason Papers has this very good symposium review by Timothy Sandefur and response by Tara Smith.
Smith’s *Judicial Review in an Objective Legal System* Read More »