An Artist’s View: Michael Newberry on Key Works of Art in History Michael Newberry is a California-based artist who has exhibited across Europe and North America. He is the author of books on color theory, philosophy of art, modernism and postmodernism in art, and art history. We invited him into our studio for this series […]
Rembrandt van Rijn | “Danae” (1636) [Newberry on Great Art series] Read More »
I will be debating Associate Professor James Orr, Faculty of Divinity at Cambridge University (UK). Dr. Orr also headed up the National Conservatism conference held in Westminster, London, May 2023. I will argue for Liberalism and Professor Orr will argue for Conservatism. The debate will be moderated by Konstantin Kisin, whose speech to the Oxford
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Who are the great philosophers, and what makes them great? Episodes: The full playlist. Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, USA, and has had visiting positions at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., the University of Kasimir the Great in Poland, Oxford University’s Harris Manchester College in England, and Jagiellonian
“What Is Metaphysics?” | Martin Heidegger | *Philosophers, Explained by Stephen Hicks Read More »
Blame and credit are two sides of the evaluative coin. So If I should accept guilt, shame, and be apologetic for bad things in the past, then I should also take credit for the good things. For example: I pride myself on the Industrial Revolution. All that Renaissance painting—I really am amazing. The Constitution of
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My long-form discussion with Robert Breedlove on the ethics of money, its history and roots in production and trade (and taxation), and the promise of Bitcoin. On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_PEIR9A4TY. Or on Rumble: https://rumble.com/v3632b3-the-philosophy-of-money-with… Related: My podcast on “You Should Love Money,” in the Open College series.
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Reprising this fascinating short article in the British Journal of Medicine by Robert N. Proctor, professor of the history of medicine at Penn State University: “The anti-smoking campaigns of the Nazis: a little known aspect of public health in Germany, 1933-1945” [pdf]. The campaign was mounted despite the arguments that (1) taxes on tobacco were
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An Artist’s View: Michael Newberry on Key Works of Art in History Michael Newberry is a California-based artist who has exhibited across Europe and North America. He is the author of books on color theory, philosophy of art, modernism and postmodernism in art, and art history. We invited him into our studio for this series
Michelangelo | *David* (1501) [Newberry on Great Art series] Read More »
My Liberalism: Pro and Con has been translated into Spanish by Fermin Elizalde. We will be serially publishing here each part prior to the publication of the book as a whole. Find the English version here: Amazon. From the blurb for the English edition: In this primer, we take up the best arguments for and
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