Excerpt from Charles Taylor on Sebastian Haffner’s memoir Defying Hitler, including his experience as a law student early in the National Socialist regime. If by now the incidents that follow are familiar—the intimidation, the erosion of press freedom, violence in the streets, people fleeing or attempting to flee—it’s their novelty to Haffner that carries the […]
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I’m speaking to students today at a high school in Wisconsin, and using this chart comparing the top ten in year 2000 with the top ten in 2020. Also this from professor Steven Rogers; My theme for the students is: You are the entrepreneur of your life. That’s good news — let the adventure begin.
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FEBRUARY 17TH WITH STEPHEN HICKS REGISTER TODAY The Wisconsin Forum 2021-2022 Season continues on Thursday, February 17, 2022, with Dr. Stephen Hicks, “The Invisibility of Entrepreneurism: Why Free-Market Polices So Often Lose.” “The economic, political, and historical evidence for the superiority of free societies is substantial — yet so many are suspicious or outright hostile,
The Forum’s impressive roster of past speakers includes Henry Hazlitt, Milton Friedman, William F. Buckley, Ronald Coase, Murray Rothbard, Thomas Sowell, Christina Hoff Sommers, and many others. I am honored to be included this year. My question will be: The economic, political, and historical evidence for the superiority of free societies is substantial — yet
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The Sprouts animation series now has over 400,000 views at YouTube. An excellent graphic introduction to Nietzsche’s critique of traditional morality.
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Thanks to Jon Hersey’s article, I became aware of Julia Galef’s The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don’t (2021). Based on Hersey’s overview and this chart, Galef’s book looks very good for those interested in cognitive improvement:
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FEBRUARY 17TH WITH STEPHEN HICKS in MILWAUKEE. REGISTER TODAY The Wisconsin Forum 2021-2022 Season continues next Thursday, February 17, 2022, with Dr. Stephen Hicks speaking on The Invisibility of Entrepreneurism: Why Free-Market Polices So Often Lose. Description: The economic, political, and historical evidence for the superiority of free societies is substantial — yet so many
A plug for what I found to be a useful discussion of this philosopher. Linking again as Kant and his complicated relationship to the Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment are again being hotly contested. “Immanuel Kant is a famously difficult philosopher, but also undeniably an important one. It isn’t hard to argue that he belongs somewhere in
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The connections between philosophy theory and political practice are often long-term. Here are three juxtapositions of quotations from philosopher Immanuel Kant in the 1780s and philosopher Gentile and politician Mussolini in the 1930s. On what’s good for the species versus what’s good for the individual: Kant,: “For all of that, this path that for the
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Historical example to keep in mind: Text version: “Although the new National Socialist government refused to grant its student supporters the power they demanded to hire and fire professors, it did make job tenure a matter of political ideology.” (Source: historian Arthur Herman’s fine 1997 book, The Idea of Decline in Western History, p. 252)
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