Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres | “Grand Odalisque” (1814) [Newberry on Great Art series]

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An Artist’s View: Michael Newberry on Key Works of Art in History Michael Newberry is an avant-garde figurative painter, writer, and teacher promoting evolutionary flourishing through his work. He does this through advances in color theory, body language, symbolism, and composition. Michael is the author of two books released in 2021: Evolution Through Art and Newberry […]

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War metaphors and trade — Bastiat

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A flotilla of ships is approaching your shore. Does it matter to you whether they are carrying smartphones and shoes — or rockets and soldiers? In his Economic Sophisms, Frédéric Bastiat makes this exasperated point: “A French ironmaster says: ‘We must protect ourselves from the invasion of English iron!’ An English landlord cries: ‘We must

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Emile, or Education | Book 1 | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Philosophers, Explained by Stephen Hicks

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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 University in Poland.

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Love and Hate in Uncertain Times [Stephen Hicks lecture in Belgrade, Serbia]

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How did the ideas of liberty prevail in the modern world? What stands behind humanity’s enormous progress in very recent centuries? Stephen Hicks answered these questions at an international conference hosted by ARCE. Related: Professor Hicks’s book on the anti-Enlightenment origins of Postmodernism, Wokism, and Cancel Culture.

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In class: Reason, according to Socrates

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At the beginning of Crito, Socrates is in prison awaiting execution, having been found guilty of impiety and corrupting the youth of Athens. His good friend Crito arrives, having worked out an escape opportunity for Socrates. Crito rushes through a few reasons why Socrates should escape immediately. Socrates then suggests that the issue is more

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Rembrandt van Rijn | “Self Portrait” (1629) [Newberry on Great Art series]

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An Artist’s View: Michael Newberry on Key Works of Art in History Michael Newberry is an figurative painter, writer, and the author of two books released in 2021: Evolution Through Art and Newberry Color Theory. Below is full 29-work list is below of his brief commentaries on major art works. Michael Newberry, Commentaries on 29

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