At Quizlet, someone has created study cards for my Explaining Postmodernism. Here, for example, are the flash cards for Chapter 2 on Kant, reason, structuralism, Hegel, and so on. Neat. May they be helpful to those students in various universities reading it this academic year as a textbook.
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Today I’ll be giving a talk for the Northern Illinois Center for Nonprofit Excellence on the topic of “Non-Profits & Conflicts and Harmonies of Interest.” The talk is at 4 p.m. in Grace Roper Lounge.
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The Atlas Society has a new CEO this year, Aaron Day. This press release announces Day’s appointment and background. The release also lists the names of those of us on the newly-constituted Board of Advisors: Ed Crane President, Cato Institute Steve Davis Director of Advanced Projects, SpaceX R. Paul Drake Professor of Physics, University of
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I’ve joined the board of policy advisors of The Heartland Institute, a leading state-level think tank based in Chicago, Illinois. Thanks to Joe Bast and Sam Karnick for the invitation and the warm welcome. My profile is here. Members of the Board of Policy Advisors “participate in the peer review of our policy studies and
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I’ll be speaking on Entrepreneurial Ethics this coming Wednesday evening at Wheeling Jesuit University. Some of my remarks will be based on my “What Business Ethics Can Learn from Entrepreneurship,” and the rest will connect those themes to other works in progress. The talk is part of part of the Distinguished Speaker Series. Thanks to
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Ronald Hamowy has died. He was a student of Friedrich Hayek’s, educated at the University of Chicago, historian, libertarian, Cato fellow, and emeritus professor at the University of Alberta in Canada. I knew him slightly as my editor when I wrote the article on “The Enlightenment” for The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism, which he published with
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Entrepreneurship and MBA Education The first issue of Kaizen for this new academic year features my interview with Jeff Sandefer. I met with Mr. Sandefer in Austin, Texas to discuss his meteoric entrepreneurial career in oil and gas and his ambitious plans for MBA education. Also featured in this issue of Kaizen [pdf] are student
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I’ll be giving an invited talk at The Representational Art Conference in Ventura, California, from October 14-17, 2012, hosted and organized by California Lutheran University. My talk will include themes from my essay “Why Art Became Ugly,” first published in Navigator magazine and subsequently translated into in German [pdf], Korean [pdf], and Spanish. Other invited
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