Young Karl Marx, full of Sturm und Drang and apocalyptic fervor, wrote poetry expressing his strongest desires. Two excerpts, the first from Feelings (1836): “Worlds I would destroy for ever, Since I can create no world, Since my call they notice never, Coursing dumb in magic whirl.” And the second from The Fiddler (1837): “I […]
. I am a big fan of C. Bradley Thompson’s America’s Revolutionary Mind. Published in 2019, it is a moral history of the founding era that will stand the test of time. Thompson is a transplanted Canadian who is a Political Science Ph.D. now teaching at Clemson University, South Carolina. Related: Thomas Jefferson on Slavery.
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Seven items, First, in 1776, in the first draft of the Declaration of Independence: “He [the King of England] has waged a cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in
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In this week of the Atlas Intellectualls course on Slavery we cover Frederick Douglass’s “To My Old Master.” Douglass had escaped slavery and become a leader of the abolitionist movement by the time he wrote this 1848 public letter to Thomas Auld—on the anniversary of his escape. Douglass describes his experiences as a slave, his
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Last year, philosopher Marc Champagne published the first scholarly work on Jordan Peterson’s overall worldview. I read the book in manuscript and contributed a blurb for it: “Philosopher Marc Champagne’s analytic skills are impressively on display as he presents and variously dissects, agrees with, and critiques Jordan Peterson’s hugely ambitious project to integrate modern science with
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At the Headway Channel: A conversation with Professor Stephen Hicks on Postmodernism. Conducted by Brian Berneker.
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In this week of the Atlas Intellectuals course on Slavery we cover the great William Wilberforce on the Abolition of Slave Trade. Wilberforce (1759-1833) was a British statesman, Anglican, and the leading force behind the 1807 abolition of the slave trade and the 1833 abolition of slavery in Great Britain. “The Slave Trade is the
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