At the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm, Marina Abramović hired a man to lie on a bed and scream for 2.5 hours (or until his voice gives out, according to the show’s pamphlet). Nearby, at the Finglefarber Asylum for the Touchingly Insane, one may also hear a bedded man screaming — but the two […]
Art that screams for attention — progress in postmodern art Read More »
Updating this humorous remembrance from the composer Igor Stravinksy, who met Pablo Picasso in Italy in 1917. Picasso drew Stravinsky and gave him the portrait as a gift. But when Stravinksy tried to cross the border with it — the Great War was still raging — he was suspected of attempting to smuggle secret plans
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I’ll be speaking at St. John’s University on March 27. My topic is “Safe and/or Free Speech in Postmodern Times.” Abstract: The liberal case for free speech won out in the modern world — but it has been challenged strongly, not only by traditional conservatives but also by the postmodern left. Hate speech, micro-aggressions, safe spaces,
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The Right says: If drugs are legal, people will shoot up, and society will go to hell. The Left says: If guns are legal, people will shoot-em up, and society will go to hell. Word-play aside, other options are possible: The authoritarians say: People can’t be trusted with either. The (true) liberals say: We can
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My article on the justice or injustice of profits — “Profits: Good, Bad, and Obscene” will be out in Spanish translation next month. The article takes up the classic issue in business ethics of that status of profits, and my argument with examples explains profit in terms of the underlying concepts of cause and effect
Spanish translation of “Profits: Good, Bad, and Obscene” forthcoming Read More »
The Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship is hosting a conference March 31-April 1 on Entrepreneurial Education. Speakers T. K. Coleman (Praxis) María Marty (Fundación para la Responsabilidad Intelectual) Nicholas Capaldi (Loyola University New Orleans) Kevin Currie-Knight (East Carolina University) Marsha Familaro Enright (The Great Connections Seminars) Terry Noel (Illinois State University) Jed Hopkins (Edgewood College) Amy
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Alt-Right philosopher Jason Reza Jorjani is taken on by hard-left philosophers at Jacobin magazine. My commentary article begins this way: Is a seismic change rumbling through Left-wing circles? In the hard-Left Jacobin magazine, two young philosophers bemoan their discovery that postmodern strategies have now been captured by the hateful and hated Alt-Right — and so in
Alt-Right versus Hard Left — Forcing a Return to the Enlightenment? Read More »
At ESEADE University in Buenos Aires, Argentina, three professors will debate the merits and demerits of liberalism — based on my “Liberalism: The Fifteen Best Arguments,” published recently in Reason Papers.
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