We’re all painfully aware of those who live to attack others for insensitivity, microaggressions, etc. They mount a constant hopeful outlook — online and elsewhere — for deviations from whatever norm is at hand. I’m reminded of this from Nietzsche’s The Joyous Science: Whom do you call bad? — Those who always want to put […]
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We’re posting serially at thinkspot the transcripts of my Open College podcasts. Here’s the twelfth: OC12: On Being the Entrepreneur of Your Life. “Entrepreneurs often seem to live larger than life: they take big risks, they make their own rules, they are innovative, they experiment, they often question everything that everybody else takes for granted.
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My thinkspot lecture this month is on the impact robotics and artificial intelligence are having and will have on our careers. Robotics and A.I. are poised to transform our jobs. Or are they? In this discussion, I will address our brave new world prospects: Will high-tech put most of us out of work and consign
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I’m happy that a translation of my Liberalism Pro & Con (Connor Court, 2020) into Spanish is underway. The English version is available at Amazon.
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Dr. Andrew Colgan, a Canadian philosopher of education, has written a concise overview of the themes and arguments of Explaining Postmodernism. The Pocket Guide is available at Amazon in e-book and paperback and other at outlets. Here is my preface to the work: A generation ago, postmodernism was merely an intellectual opposition to grand Enlightenment claims
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My “What Entrepreneurs Can Teach Us All About Life” was published in The Wall Street Journal. Here is a PDF version of the article. Snippet: “We often think of entrepreneurs as larger-than-life characters. They take big risks. They make their own rules. They innovate and experiment, questioning things everybody else takes for granted. “It can almost
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We’re posting serially at thinkspot the transcripts of my Open College podcasts. Here’s the eleventh: OC11: Is Envy Worse in a Free Society? “Is a free and open society more susceptible to the dangers of envy? It’s an interesting question because most often the envy charge is used against socialism, or any kind of outcome-egalitarian
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Important test case for universities: “A few years ago, a college student in Georgia stood on a stool outside a campus food court to talk about his Christian faith. He spoke for 20 minutes about human frailty and the possibility of salvation when school officials told him he had to stop or face discipline. “This
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