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The Skrobot conversation: colonialism, poverty and racism in America

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A long form conversation with Dubai-based host Lucas Skrobot. Our topics: * Objectivity, wealth creation, and individual agency * The legacy of colonialism * Botswana and Zimbabwe, Hong Kong, Japan, * Sweden and Norway: first individualistic and market-based; then more re-distributive. * Poverty and pockets of socialism in America: government welfare, government schools, government restrictions […]

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Universities should be deeply embarrassed …

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… that it’s come to this: Politicians feel they can/must nudge them or coerce them into basic intellectual civility. The President of the United States uses the financial big stick: “Many have become increasingly hostile to the First Amendment and free speech. Under the guise of speech codes, safe spaces, and trigger warnings, these universities

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Why Postmoderns Train—Not Educate—Activists [Open College series]

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A new episode of my podcast series, produced by Possibly Correct out of Toronto. Audio: iTunes Stitcher YouTube Topics: Why indoctrination makes sense to postmodernists // Modern ideal of liberal education // My undergraduate experience // New-fashioned indoctrination Transcription: Forthcoming. Sources: John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859), Chapter 2. Mark Lilla: “The history of French philosophy in

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*Explaining Postmodernism* audiobook now available

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The audiobook of the Expanded Edition of my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault is now available at Audible and iTunes: Audible iTunes The narrator is Scott R. Smith. Listening length is 7 hours and 23 minutes. The expanded edition includes my Free Speech and Postmodernism and From Modern to Postmodern Art: Why Art Became Ugly essays. Images

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“Are Reason and Faith Compatible?” republished at Church and State

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My “Are Reason and Faith Compatible?” is now republished at Britain’s Church and State site: “Suppose we grant, for the sake of argument, that evidence and logic make it 80 percent likely that a monotheistic god exists. … but there is nonetheless a gap between what the arguments show and the full belief-commitment that most

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