What Postmodernism Is [EP audiobook]

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The first chapter of the audiobook version of my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault. Chapter One: What Postmodernism Is [mp3] [YouTube] [38 minutes] The postmodern vanguard: Foucault, Lyotard, Derrida, Rorty [mp3] [YouTube] Modern and postmodern [mp3] [YouTube] Modernism and the Enlightenment [mp3] [YouTube] Postmodernism versus the Enlightenment [mp3] [YouTube] Postmodern academic […]

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Freedom in the 50 states, and Illinois in particular

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How free are individuals in all 50 states? Political scientists Jason Sorens and Will Ruger have crunched the numbers in over 30 areas — civil liberties, travel freedom, drug enforcement, business regulation, tax policy, and so on — as well as computing overall rankings for each state. And the winner is … North Dakota, followed

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Professor Terry Noel to speak at Rockford College

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On March 28, Terry Noel, Professor of Management and Quantitative Methods at Illinois State University, will visit Rockford College to give two talks: “The Virtuous Entrepreneur” and “Entrepreneurship and Management.” Dr. Noel is the author of Empty Nest Egg and a frequent speaker on entrepreneurial themes. Contact Virginia Murr at CEE@Rockford.edu for more details. Update:

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Kaizen Weekly Review — Magatte Wade, David Henderson, and more

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The new edition of Kaizen Weekly Review features my interview with Senegalese-American entrepreneur Magatte Wade, David Henderson on “robber barons,” James Shikwati on aid versus entrepreneurial development in Africa, Forbes on companies that cultivate their employees’ happiness, a post on “Third Way” politics, and my lecture in Brazil on entrepreneurs as moral heroes. All issues

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The two Americas: 13 countries’ GDP

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I’ve started reading Guillermo M. Yeatts’s 2010 Plunder in Latin America. Yeatts lists thirteen American countries’ per capita GDP in 2008 US dollars, first alphabetically by country: Argentina 8,281 Bolivia 1,948 Brazil 8,379 Canada 46,826 Chile 10,933 Colombia 5,478 Cuba 4,840 Ecuador 3,770 Mexico 10,278 Peru 4,454 Uruguay 8,942 USA 46,647 Venezuela 4,315 I re-arranged

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