My podcast series, produced by Possibly Correct out of Toronto. Are campus activists really gentle snowflakes who melt in the heat of controversy and alternative ideas? Or are they being used as part of a calculated power strategy? A generation ago, the slogan was Speak truth to power! Now it’s often Fuck truth and grab […]
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Liberalism Pro and Con is a primer. I identify the most influential arguments for liberalism and present them in their strongest form, with supporting quotations from leading thinkers who make that argument. I then do the same with the most influential arguments against liberalism. Before you decide your politics, you must know these arguments. The
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In Melbourne, I met Peter Schipperheyn, creator of the magnificent Thus Spake Zarathustra. The monumental piece is at the McClelland Sculpture Park near Mornington. The tension running through Zarathustra’s bowed body as he reaches and affirms his decision is powerful. Schipperheyn decided on its name in part from reading Nietzsche’s Ecce Homo (“Why I am
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Christine Jackman on getting past the toxicity of much social media and other conversations. Ms. Jackman will be the MC for the inaugural The Brisbane Dialogues next month, in which I’ll be debating Professor John Quiggin about whether postmodernism is a right-wing phenomenon.
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Professor Mario Rizzo presents his new book Escaping Paternalism (Cambridge University Press, 2020). The book is co-authored with Glen Whitman. I love the cover image. Rizzo is a professor in the Economics Department at New York University and a deep-thinking scholar. Here’s his one-hour lecture at Brown University on the book’s themes:
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… will be published in March by Connor Court Publishing. Liberalism: Pro & Con By Stephen R.C. Hicks Foreword by Parnell Palme McGuinness Paperback, 110 pages, ISBN: 9781925826821 [Stephen Hicks Australian Tour Release: March 2020.] Why take up the strongest arguments? In this primer, our method starts by taking up the best arguments for and
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Al-Masih Ad-Dajjal published his extended review of my Nietzsche and the Nazis in December 2019. I like this part: “His writing talent is praiseworthy: clarity, historical competency, willingness to engage opponents with charity. There are occasions throughout the listening of his audiobook where one is moved by way of his descriptions of Nietzschean philosophy, a
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In Brisbane, Australia, Monday, 9th March 2020, 5:45 pm – 8:00 pm. From the event description: WHAT’S THE PROBLEM? Polarisation and toxic discourse — old-fashioned intolerance and incivility on 21st century steroids – should be everyone’s concern. It’s not just in the public arena and not just online, they are seeping through everywhere, affecting day-to-day
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In my The Religion Course with Stephen Hicks (now running at thinkspot), our first big question is: What Is Religion? We set aside the questions of whether religion is true, good, or useful and focus only on understanding the phenomenon. What do, say, the Abrahamic religions, Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism, Wakan Tankaism, and traditional African religions
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This is still true: “The university teacher should, if he is fit for his position, be a person of a fair and judicial mind; he should, in dealing with such subjects, set forth justly, without suppression or innuendo, the divergent opinions of other investigators and he should, above all, remember that his business is not