Professor Jerry Kirkpatrick gave a talk at Rockford College on October 28 on “Montessori and Dewey as Educational Philosophers.” Dr. Kirkpatrick is Professor of International Business at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. In the following eleven-minute interview after his talk, I speak with Dr. Kirkpatrick about the two great educational philosophers of the twentieth century, […]
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The insightful Shikha Dalmia, senior policy analyst at Reason and a columnist for Forbes, in a 6.5 minute video interview for Reason.tv, on two of my favorite topics: India, and movies about India:
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[This is the Bibliography for Nietzsche and the Nazis.] Nietzsche and the Nazis—Bibliography Ahern, Daniel R. 1995. Nietzsche as Cultural Physician. Pennsylvania State University Press. Allison, David B. 2001. Reading the New Nietzsche. Rowman and Littlefield. Anchor, Robert. 1972. Germany Confronts Modernization, German Culture and Society, 1790-1890. D. C. Heath. Barkai, Avraham. 1990. Nazi Economics:
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From Gurcharan Das’s India Unbound, on education since 1947, when India became independent of Britain and tried democratic politics mixed with heavily top-down, government-run economic planning: “The story of education in free India is a sad one. The government created a vast number of schools, practically free, after Independence. But they were so uniformly bad
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Missouri. It is the “Show Me” State. Legend has it that the “show-me” is captures Missourians’ no-nonsense, matter-of-fact attitude. Don’t ask me to take your word for it, stranger. Give me something real to go on. As far as I know, Missouri’s is the only epistemological slogan in the country. Maybe even in the world.
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A vigorous culture carries on its debates at many levels and via many media, all the way down to the bumper sticker. I enjoy the cleverness that goes into many stickers, as well as the ongoing one-upmanship. These “Coexist” stickers have been around for awhile now: Islam, peace, men/women, Judaism, paganism, Taoism/Confucianism, Christianity — can’t
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I am reading Gurcharan Das’s India Unbound, and it is fueling my longstanding fascination with India. Das is former CEO of Procter & Gamble India and currently a columnist for Times of India. He grew up under Nehruvian socialism and state planning and watched it become a crippling disaster, and he has seen the dramatic
In the following two-part interview, I talk with Mr. Sandefur about the contrasting views of the Progressives and the Founding Fathers on liberty and human rights, how the Progressive agenda has led to an increase in political entrepreneurship, and philosophy’s role in stimulating positive changes in our political system.
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