Tomorrow. Some of the questions that we’ll be discussing: 1. Emergency power grabs and restrictions by governments have become normal and more agreeable to the public at large at the time of the crisis. Some of them tend to stay even after the crisis. What do we need to do in order to make sure […]
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On Sunday, April 19, I’ll be participating in a teleconference on this topic: At a time when governments around the world have invoked the crisis as a legitimate reason to increase state power, we see despotic tendencies taking over across the world. A crisis like a pandemic makes the citizenry agree to almost anything to
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A fun anecdote. Dr. Oakley’s online learning courses have over three million users, some based on her Mindshift book. We met a few years ago at a conference, and she recently recounted our first exchange. ‘True story: Barb was talking to a fellow colloquium attendee who seemed keenly aware of philosophy. She mentioned she only
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Processing my Australian trip — all the lectures, debates, interviews, outstanding people, exotic locales — and all amidst the rising virus threat. Updates, features, pictures, and regular posting to resume now.
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Just finished, happily, a long-form interview with the excellent John Anderson, former Deputy PM of Australia. More information forthcoming about the publication date. Check out his other conversations in the series.
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My debate with Professor John Quiggin will be livestreamed free to my followers at thinkspot and for a small fee elsewhere. So: Is Postmodernism a Right-wing Philosophy? The thinkspot page for the site is here: https://ts.today/event_signup?event=43936.
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Filmmaker Curt Jaimungal premieres his “Better Left Unsaid” in Toronto on March 19. Themes: the Left, racism, hate speech, and more. Here’s the two-minute trailer: Jaigmungal interviewed me in 2019 for this production, but I haven’t seen what from the interview made it into the film.
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… will be published in March by Connor Court Publishing. Liberalism: Pro & Con By Stephen R.C. Hicks Foreword by Parnell Palme McGuinness Paperback, 110 pages, ISBN: 9781925826821 [Stephen Hicks Australian Tour Release: March 2020.] Why take up the strongest arguments? In this primer, our method starts by taking up the best arguments for and
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