Racism: scale perspective
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Marian Tupy (Cato) and Human Progress: TASA conversation upcoming
I will be a guest, along with the excellent Marian Tupy, on the TASA show hosted by Jennifer Grossman. The positive data on human progress are overwhelming. Yet so many are pessimistic. Is it simple ignorance of the data? Is it that bad news drowns out the good? Is it that we’ve made only technical
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“What Entrepreneurs Can Teach Us All About Life” at the TAS site
My “What Entrepreneurs Can Teach Us All About Life,” originally published in The Wall Street Journal, has been re-published at The Atlas Society’s site. Thanks to editor Marilyn Moore for selecting it.
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Ortega y Gasset on egoism and dedication to purpose
“It is not as easy as you imagine to be a pure egoist, and none such have ever succeeded. The apparent egoism of great nations and of great men is the inevitable sternness with which anyone who has his life fixed on some undertaking must bear himself. When we are really going to do something
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Sargon of Akkad discussion: Pomo and Destabilization Strategies [transcript]
The transcript of my discussion with Sargon of Akkad follows the embedded video. Understanding Postmodernism with Professor Stephen Hicks Transcript of Sargon of Akkad’s (a.k.a. Carl Benjamin) interview with Stephen Hicks, June 2018 Questions What inspired you to write a book explaining postmodernism? Military history suggests that pomo is an attack strategy—is it?
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Dr. Jane Clare Jones, the Intellectual Dark Web, and me
Dr. Jane Clare Jones seems like a nice, intelligent person, but my tweet about the ethos of the Intellectual Dark Web prompted a strongly negative response and this chain of exchanges: Dr. Jones replied: I responded, as did she: And with a helpful clarification that she also disagrees with the authoritarian Left: Me on the
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White and Anti-White Racism at *The New York Times*
Sure will be interesting to see how these two new stories play out in the Gray Lady’s soul: 1. Baseball player with history of racist tweets. Apologizes. Milwaukee fans’ reactions. NYT publishes *scorching* response. 2. A week later, NYT editorial-board hire with history of racist tweets. Doesn’t apologize. NYT expresses *understanding*. Bad behavior all around,
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Sargon of Akkad conversation on pomo and destabilization strategies
My discussion with Sargon of Akkad (aka Carl Benjamin) on these topics: What inspired you to write a book explaining postmodernism? Military history suggests that pomo is an attack strategy–is it? Pomo is brilliant but diabolical, but why is it the far Left that’s using it most? But pomo is not really communist, is it?
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