I understand: (1) Climate is not weather, except when it is. (2) Global warming means milder winters but also harsher winters. Far from expert on the issue, but can USA Today please up its science-journalism game? The video accompanying this article promises to explain why “Climate change is making winters colder despite rising temperatures and […]
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I will be giving a public talk entitled “The Postmodern Critique of Liberal Education” on October 30 at Clemson University, South Carolina. A description of the talk and location information are in this pdf flyer for the event. My lecture is part of the John W. Pope lecture series, which in the past has featured
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“The young man who has drunk for the first time from that spring is as happy as if he had found a treasure of wisdom; he is positively enraptured. He will pick up any discourse, draw all its ideas together to make them into one, then take them apart and pull them to pieces. He
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Read this WSJ article reporting on Attorney-General Bob Barr’s speech at the University of Notre Dame, and then ask: Are these the premises shared by both left and right? 1. People need morality. 2. Morality can come only from either Church or State. The current right then argues that the government’s doing a bad job,
Either God or the State?? Read More »
Joanna and her son had a rough relationship, and both spoke their minds. From a letter she wrote to young Arthur Schopenhauer toward the end of 1807: Source is here. More letters from his parents here.
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A New Yorker article explains “Why thinkers of every political persuasion keep finding inspiration in the philosopher.” That’s a long way to come for a philosopher who in his lifetime was dismissed as a non-philosopher by the official philosophers of the day. Biographer Marianne Cowen reports that Nietzsche’s colleagues told their students not to take
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I’m happy to be joining some of today’s brightest minds at thinkspot. For November’s launch, we will be hosting a livestream event featuring a Q&A with me. To participate in the livestream, sign up today at thinkspot.com. Use my promo code “Hicks” when signing up to be bumped to the top of the waitlist. If you’re
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Young Americans for Liberty is a dynamic student group with chapters all over the country, so I’m happy to be participating in this regional conference in the Detroit suburb of Southfield. Title and description of my talk: “Why Young Socialists Don’t Love Us — But They Should” Description: “The historical record of socialist poverty and
YALCon Detroit today Read More »
The waitlist at thinkspot currently has hundreds of thousands of people. The technical team will be letting subscribers join starting in October, but the rollout will be slow and careful as they scale up the site. So some on the waitlist might have to wait months for access. My followers, though, can use a promo code
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The USA was in decline for the last decade, falling to 16th in 2015, but is now catching up to the world leaders. Canada’s Fraser institute released its 2019 report before the latest volleys of China-USA tariffs were announced. 162 countries are researched and ranked on their importance in five areas: Size of government, Legal
Economic Freedom: USA back in top 5, Canada 8th Read More »