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Education: Crisis or not? Deb Fillman interviews Stephen Hicks

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Deb FIllman long-form interviewed me for The Reason We Learn. Topics (with timestamps): 00:00 Preamble 01:49 Introduction 02:01 Global Problems are Too Big for Children 06:29 Intentional Indoctrination? 07:43 Is the current educational crisis philosophical? 09:48 What is it to be a human being? 11:04 The conflict of visions 16:28 How would you describe the […]

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Draw My Life: Reason [Atlas Intellectuals]

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In this unit of the Atlas Intellectuals course on Objectivity we feature our means to understand reality, Reason. View the video short, Draw My Life: Reason. What is your most important device? It’s not made of silicon, it’s not your smartphone or your laptop. It’s made of neurons and lies between your ears — your

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“Fascinated by ugliness”

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A striking line from German-American historian Walter Laqueur on early 20th-century transformation of the arts: “The painters were fascinated by ugliness; the composers threw harmony overboard, gradually moving towards dissonance; the poets and playwrights were preoccupied with the madness of great cities, parenticide and rats emerging from rotting corpses.” (Laqueur, Walter. Weimar: A Cultural History,

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Two tidbits on Cuba: Batista, embargo excuse-making

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1. Batista first came to power in Cuba by being elected to office. He ran as head of the Democratic Socialist party, a coalition supported also by the Cuban Communist Party. The image is of an election poster. (History lesson: Beware of democratic socialists. They’re often wolves in sheep’s clothing.) 2. The US-embargo means there

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Entrepreneurial Education — Medici, Locke, Rothschild, Semmelweis

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My 20-minute talk for the City of Ideas festival in Puebla, Mexico is online here. In English with Spanish subtitles. I use four examples — two good and two awful — from the history of medicine to frame my recommendations for transforming education.

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FreedomFest today: Democratic Socialism for Beginners

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I’m in Rapid City, South Dakota today, speaking at 2 p.m. local time on “Democratic Socialism for Beginners.” The full FreedomFest lineup of speakers and sessions is here.

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Why Radical Feminists Censor Porn

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In response to a question about some forms of feminism — including Andrea Dworkin’s and Catharine MacKinnon’s — and their connections to postmodernism and censorship. Why Radical Feminists Censor Porn. Four-minutes: Related: This long-form response to two sets of critics of Explaining Postmodernism: