“The number of men enrolled at two- and four-year colleges has fallen behind women by record levels, in a widening education gap across the U.S.” “A Generation of American Men Give Up on College: ‘I Just Feel Lost’” More at The Wall Street Journal. Two thoughts: This is a bad thing. Boys and young men […]
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Selected U.S. statistics: 73.1 life expectancy at birth for women in 1960 79.7 life expectancy at birth for women in 1999 80.5 life expectancy at birth for women in 2020 66.6 life expectancy at birth for men in 1960 74.1 life expectancy at birth for men in 1999 75.1 life expectancy at birth for men
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Compare these two lists of Top Ten corporations in the United States, 2000 on the left and 2020 on the right: 8 out of 10 companies dropped out of the list, replaced by new companies, most of which had only come into existence in this generation.
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Jennifer Grossman, CEO of The Atlas Society interviews senior scholar Stephen Hicks on Black Lives, Matter, Covid, postmodernism, Cultural Marxism, and varieties of racism. This interview and Q&A was first published at YouTube in 2020. Below is a transcription. SUMMARY KEYWORDS: Racism, postmodernism, individualism, Marxism, reparations, capitalism, justice, institutional racism, Black Lives Matter SPEAKERS: Jennifer
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Image of the letter and a transcription below: Fallowfield, Manor Road, Penn, Buckinghamshire, England. April 28th, 1970 Dear Professor Aron, Many thanks for your letter of April 15th. I can only say that when I read either Adorno or Habermas, I feel as if lunatics were speaking. I have translated some of their German sentences
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Episode 54 in my Open College with Dr. Stephen Hicks podcast series. Marx and Engels claimed their communism was “scientific socialism.” What do they mean by “scientific”? Were they sincere, or does their apparent logic cover for an essentially religious vision? Title: Socialism: Scientific or Religious?Date: September 2021Transcript: Forthcoming All audio versions of the podcast
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‘Artist Jens Haaning received $84,000 to incorporate into a piece. When the Kunsten museum took the delivery, they found two empty frames with a new title: “Take the Money And Run.” ‘“The work of art is that I took their money,” Haaning told broadcaster DR. ‘The museum wants its money back, but Haaning is so
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My long-form conversation with Marsha Enright, President of The Great Connections. A transcription is forthcoming.
Liberal Education? What is it and what is it good for? Read More »