“The idea that America is fundamentally flawed because some people have a [racist] problem in their minds, that’s a recipe to keep you in poverty and unhappiness for the rest of your life,” said Juan Saldivar, a father of a Southlake student, to explain his opposition to restructuring Southlake schools around ‘systemic racism.’ “My parents […]
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My article “Liberal Education and Its Postmodern Critics,” published in the scholarly journal Academic Questions, is now available here. From the opening: It is a truism to say that education is politicized. Yet my goal here is to show that politicized battles over education are mostly not about politics but about philosophy. Policy battles are
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Por Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D. Traducido al Español por Fermin Elizalde, 2020. (Original English.) Stephen R. C. Hicks es Profesor en Filosofía en la Universidad de Rockford. Su libro más reciente es Explicando el Postmodernismo: Escepticismo y Socialismo Desde Rousseau a Foucault (Ockham’s Razor, 2011). Es una obviedad decir que la educación está politizada.
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Contrasting liberal to cancel culture. Image and text versions below, should you want to modify for yourself. Cancel Culture defined Liberal Culture Cancel Culture Range of opinion? Expect diversity of Expect uniformity of Attitude toward those who disagree? Tolerance of the eccentric Hostility to the deviant Atmosphere encouraged? Benevolence Fear
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Courage, rather than cowardice and intolerance, in seeking truth.
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I was interviewed for the “Conversations with Marsha” series, part of The Great Connections program. Our theme is The Liberal Arts, What They Are and Why You Need Them. Video is below, and a rough transcription is coming soon.
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Eton teacher Will Knowland was fired for this online discussion of sex and gender: (I’m quoted on free speech at the 2:15-minute mark. Thanks to Marian Tupy for the link.) While Knowland’s discussion takes up whether Patriarchy is natural/artificial and good/bad — the implicit lesson of his firing seems to be Thou shalt not challenge
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Liberal education under threat. Guided by moderator Ravi Lakhani (London, UK) , Professor Louis Marinoff (New York, USA) and I had a lively exchange diagnosing and offering solutions to the attacks. The description: “Historically, universities are bastions of academic freedom. They are melting pots where ideas battle for supremacy. With the rise of cancel-culture and
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