Jordan Peterson and Stephen Hicks discuss Postmodernism
The two professors discuss Postmodernism in depth.
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Defeatist psychology on the Left
Half a century ago, a despairing left intellectual wrote: “The Millenium Has Been Cancelled.” Edward Hyams was reacting to the many total failures of socialism in theory and practice, as well as to the apparent endurance of some sort of liberal capitalism.[1] In a recent review of a far-leftist book — Enzo Traverso’s Left-Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History,
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Whose Bathroom Is It, Anyway? [Good Life series]
What happens when you mix politics, bathrooms, and sexuality? Let the joking begin. A politician walks into a transgender bar. [Fill in the blank here.] Afterwards, he tries to explain: “I really only wanted to use the bathroom.” Ha ha. But the serious business is the busybody politicians in North Carolina and Tennessee who have
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Don’t cite white males in research
According to this essay, published in Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography. Ordinarily we cite to give credit for scholarly accomplishment and to aid other scholars in their research. But some things are more important than justice and knowledge!!
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Parents’ time, then and now
Some questions based on this chart (via Michael Strong): 1. Households’ paid income increased by a combined six hours, from 50 to 56 hours per week of paid work. So are households richer by 12% or so? 2. Housework declined by a combined 10 hours per week. Are houses now dirtier or messier? Or has
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Goethe versus Beethoven on deference to aristocrats
From an account of the famous meeting of the two giants in 1812: Beethoven’s manners were described as rough, like “an unlicked bear,” while “Goethe’s social attitudes were shaped in a more formal age. For Beethoven, 21 years his junior, the only true aristocrats were artists. In the mythology, his disillusionment was clinched by Goethe’s
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Al Gini on Leadership — our CEE interview
[Here is a transcript of our eleven-minute video interview.] Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship Interview with Professor Al Gini on Leadership Hicks: I’m Stephen Hicks of CEE. Today we have with us Professor Al Gini from Loyola University Chicago, where he is chair of the management department and where he teaches business ethics. He is also
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How Randy Newman Solved Stanley Fish’s Credibility Problem
Stanley Fish, postmodern provocateur, gave a talk at Indiana University when I was a graduate student there in the late 1980s. He was then working on what would become There’s No Such Thing As Free Speech, And It’s a Good Thing, Too. Fish’s theme was social construction and oppression: We all are products of our
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