Here’s my two-minute trailer for my livestream lecture series starting tomorrow, June 20: Join me in this 3-session course co-organized by thinkspot and Ayn Rand Center Latin America. * Session 1: June, Saturday 20th, 12-1 pm Central. On Altruism: Both Nietzsche and Rand are vehement opponents of altruism. Why? And in what ways are their […]
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Three smart young people critique my book in this extended YouTube conversation. I enjoyed listening, criticisms and all, as they present both sides of the arguments, intelligently assess their strengths and weaknesses, and state forthrightly their own conclusions. “Explaining Stephen Hicks: Jordan Peterson and ‘Postmodern Neo-Marxism’?” In a forthcoming Open College podcast, I’ll respond to
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“Why Students Have Turned Away from History” by Professor David Kaiser: “Harvard and Radcliffe together had graduated about 270 history majors in 1965, with about 30 full-time history faculty. In 2017 the department had 47 full-time members and graduated 45 history majors.” Trends are the same at other leading universities. Why?
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O’Neill is one of the courageous ones. Apt summary and recommendation: “So it starts with tearing down statues of slave traders and it ends with a school in Sussex ditching its plan to name one of its houses after JK Rowling because she has dared to criticise the cult of transgenderism. What a deranged week
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I was happy to be invited to participate in this panel organized by the Foundation for Economic Education. My remarks focused on how Covid-19 has made philosophers of us — as we were confronted with the immediacy of life and death, the importance of work and leisure, how much control we have control over our
Fear of Technology? FEE panel on Covid-19 and Technology Read More »
I’m reading dancer Maya Plisetskaya’s memoir, I, Maya Plisetskaya. She was a great ballerina, primarily with the Bolshoi, her life filled with drama and extremes, both positive and negative — the negative mostly a function of operating as an artist under Soviet socialism, with all of its petty bureaucrats, power-lusters, obstructionists, and other semi-humans. A
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Via Ryerson’s Centre for Free Expression: “Something very wrong has happened at the University of Alberta. A professor has been fired from part of her academic job for views on sex and gender that break with current orthodoxy. “In late March, Kathleen Lowrey … was asked to resign … on the basis that one or
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Brief, thoughtful post: “police union privileges are only one part of a system and reform requires system-thinking. Nevertheless, getting rid of these special privileges, including so-called qualified immunity and restoring the equal rule of law are good places to start. Need I also mention that police should not keep fines and forfeitures …” Source: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/06/police-union-privileges-revisited.html.
Tabarrok on police privileges Read More »
So far, these questions (and comments) have been posted. I’ll be taking them up approximately in this order tonight at thinkspot: 1. To me the greatest problem in determining whether God exists or not is in determine what is God. Some believe God is perfect and infinite. Some believe God is not perfect and not
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Excellent essay by Professor C. Bradley Thompson diagnosing prominent strains of the weird left and the sometimes-weirder right, both deeply anti-liberal, anti-Enlightenment, and anti-American-founding. Link. the principles and institutions of the American Founding are now under assault from the nattering nabobs of both the progressive Left and the reactionary Right. These two ideological antipodes share
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