From a review of always-thoughtful Mark Lilla’s 2018 book on how to revive liberalism. The question, says Samuel Moyn, is: “How did we get here? Much depends on how one narrates the path from 1968 to Trump’s election.” Moyn’s suggestion is: ‘After 1968, disaster set in. Faced with the sins of Vietnam, the Democrats flirted […]
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Consider this description of an economic system: “The economy is collectively managed by employers, workers and state officials by formal mechanisms at the national level. This non-elected form of state officializing of every interest will reduce the marginalization of singular interests. The system will recognize every divergent interest into the state organically, not meaning a
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As part of this full lecture on Objectivist philosophy of education and its intimate connections to Montessori’s system, here is the conclusion-drawing section for those already familiar with Montessori: For the full context — overviewing Rand’s and Montessori’s major ideas — begin here: Source: My 15-lecture video course on Philosophy of Education. The Objectivism and
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Friedrich Nietzsche on why the rise of the philosophers meant the fall of man: Once reason took over, men “no longer possessed their former guides, their regulating, unconscious and infallible drives: they were reduced to thinking, inferring, reckoning, co-ordinating cause and effect, these unfortunate creatures; they were reduced to their ‘consciousness,’ their weakest and most
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I was honored to be invited to be on the editorial board for the Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society, the latest and greatest reference volume in business ethics. The seven-volume production was edited by Robert W. Kolb and published this year by Sage. I also contributed three articles — on Trade, Politicization of Business,
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[Reposting from its first publication at EveryJoe.] Is a seismic change rumbling through Left-wing circles? In the hard-Left Jacobin magazine, two young philosophers bemoan their discovery that postmodern strategies have now been captured by the hateful and hated Alt-Right — and so in reaction they propose that socialists embrace the philosophy of the Enlightenment.[1] President Donald
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G.W.F. Hegel said: “This *Good*, this *Reason*, in its most concrete form, is God. God governs the world; the actual working of his government—the carrying out of his plan—is the History of the World.” For more on the meaning of Hegel’s quotation and its implications for postmodernism, see p. 58 of my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism
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Dr. Jane Clare Jones seems like a nice, intelligent person, but my tweet about the ethos of the Intellectual Dark Web prompted a strongly negative response and this chain of exchanges: Dr. Jones replied: I responded, as did she: And with a helpful clarification that she also disagrees with the authoritarian Left: Me on the
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Leftists have long been apoplectic about Koch money on campus, especially when used to support discussions of free-market principles. Now they are strange bedfellows with the Trump right-wing, which also attacks free markets, especially on immigration and trade. Here’s Donald Trump dissing Charles and David Koch: “‘I never sought their support because I don’t need
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13 Argumentos para el Capitalismo Liberal en 13 Minutos por Stephen R.C. Hicks Traducido al Español por Fermin Elizalde y María Marty Original English. Portuguese. German. Argumento 1: El Capitalismo Liberal aumenta la libertad Primero, definamos nuestros términos. Por “Liberalismo” nos referimos a una red de principios que están institucionalizados. Los politólogos hablarán de ellos
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