“Structural” is a technical term in this literature, and when claimants of “structural racism” and “critical race theory” use it be aware that they are not allies of the anti-racism of the Martin Luther King judge-individuals-by-the-content-of-their-character variety. What they mean by racism is something profoundly different. Three quotations on what they mean by structural: From […]
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Four-minute excerpt here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbeCQis1kh7fEaOGPhG96SA. Why is everyone talking about postmodernism? In the 1990s, could one predict the “culture war” of the 2010s? Full interview topics covered: How I first came to read Rand, predicting postmodernism, connecting psychology to philosophy, from abstractions to particulars and putting the measurements back in, dealing with subverters, character and getting
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On July 2, I’ll be interviewed by a man of integrity, Will Knowland, who was sacked from his teaching position at England’s prestigious Eton College. Here are two pieces of journalism on the context and results: Will Knowland was sacked from Eton College over video ‘The Patriarchy Paradox’ and Mixed race wife of Eton teacher
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Enjoyed this one a lot: 15-minute overview of the free speech principles, historically and philosophically, and then a series of questions from the student members of the Dundee FSS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz2hEDDPxlU
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In this week of the Atlas Intellectuals course on Slavery we feature Stephen Hicks’s analysis of slavery’s history: Anti-Slavery in the Americas: A Primer. The first two points: Before Columbus’s Atlantic crossing, slavery had long been practiced by every major culture in the world, with the likely exception of Australia. Virtually no individuals known to
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Our discussion, hosted by Vicki Oddino. Topics: Are you guilty of racism? (No.) Is CRT really anti-racist? How promising is parent involvement and protest at school boards? Should politicians ban CRT in the schools? What is inflation? Why is it a problem? How unprecedented is current increase in the money supply?
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Dr. Piotr Kostyło is Head of the Department of Philosophy of Education at the University of Kasimir the Great, in Poland. Professor ‘s review essay, “Do We Know What We Advocate? Stephen Hicks’s Defence of Individualism“ takes up my book Nietzsche and the Nazis and my individualist response to the philosophical world of Friedrich Nietzsche
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Los cuatro errores del papa Francisco sobre el liberalismo El papa Francisco nos ha dado varios indicios de su posición acerca del liberalismo, pero su negatividad es cada vez más evidente. En su mensaje a la Sesión Plenaria de la Pontificia Academia de Ciencias Sociales, las críticas fueron directas y, a veces, crudas. Si bien el Pontífice tuvo algunos
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