Ayn Rand Center Europe invited me and and Craig Biddle to Serbia to debate whether Objectivism is an open or closed philosophy. I argued for open and Mr. Biddle argued for closed. A recording of the debate follows. Also following the video window (or in this PDF) is a transcription of my remarks for those […]
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The hard part about writing about education can be getting past all of the clichés. Excellence. Truth. Honor. Tradition. The Future. Yet those words do capture essential aspirations for education, especially for those of us at the kind of college Rockford is and can be. I want to focus here on excellence. All of my
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The flowing Niobe Chiaramonti. Two minutes with John Gillis on her art-historical significance. Related: Stephen Hicks’s publications and lectures on art.
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My long-form discussion with Robert Breedlove. On YouTube or Rumble. Outline of Topics: 00:00:00 – Coming up, Intro, Advertisement00:02:43 – Introducing Stephen Hicks 00:03:12 – The Philosophy of Money 00:06:29 – Money: A Social and Cultural Achievement 00:08:39 – Centrally Designed Money vs. Emergent Money 00:13:26 – The Origin of Money Outline of Topics, continued: 00:18:42 – Money: A
1 Immanuel Kant on the limits of reason. Critique of Pure Reason. 2 William James on pacifism and defeating militarism. “The Moral Equivalent of War.” 3 Galileo Galilei on not persecuting scientists. “Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina.” Coming soon: The 30 in the first series include:
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At the beginning of the academic year, reprising this aspiration from C. Vann Woodward, Yale historian and author of The Strange Career of Jim Crow (1955), which Martin Luther King, Jr. said was “the historical bible of the Civil Rights Movement.” The purpose of the university is not to make its members feel secure, content,
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On my syllabus: I encourage you to use ChatGPT. It is a powerful new research tool. Anything that enables you to learn faster and become more skillful is to be embraced. At the same time, a tool is not a substitute for your own self-development. As a student, your goal is to acquire as much
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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
Rembrandt van Rijn | “Danae” (1636) [Newberry on Great Art series] Read More »