I’m happy that a translation of my Liberalism Pro & Con (Connor Court, 2020) into Spanish is underway. The English version is available at Amazon.
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Dr. Andrew Colgan, a Canadian philosopher of education, has written a concise overview of the themes and arguments of Explaining Postmodernism. The Pocket Guide is available at Amazon in e-book and paperback and other at outlets. Here is my preface to the work: A generation ago, postmodernism was merely an intellectual opposition to grand Enlightenment claims
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My “What Entrepreneurs Can Teach Us All About Life” was published in The Wall Street Journal. Here is a PDF version of the article: “We often think of entrepreneurs as larger-than-life characters. They take big risks. They make their own rules. They innovate and experiment, questioning things everybody else takes for granted. “It can almost seem
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We’re posting serially at thinkspot the transcripts of my Open College podcasts. Here’s the eleventh: OC11: Is Envy Worse in a Free Society? “Is a free and open society more susceptible to the dangers of envy? It’s an interesting question because most often the envy charge is used against socialism, or any kind of outcome-egalitarian
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Important test case for universities: “A few years ago, a college student in Georgia stood on a stool outside a campus food court to talk about his Christian faith. He spoke for 20 minutes about human frailty and the possibility of salvation when school officials told him he had to stop or face discipline. “This
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What does God think of human reason? In my courses, I like to emphasize that early in modernity the old and the new were in stark contrast. Here is Martin Luther, reacting against Renaissance Humanism and the more worldly Aristotelian direction of Christianity in the late Middle Ages: “In this whole matter the first and
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We’re posting serially at thinkspot the transcripts of my Open College podcasts. Here’s the tenth: OC10: Bhopal’s Chemical Disaster–Who Really Cares About the Environment. “Bhopal is a classic case of a mixed-economy, business-government partnership in the context of an overall socialist industrial policy. In such a corrupted business-politics environment, disasters are inevitable.” Audio versions of
From high theory to political activism can be a long road. But the path is clear from the philosophy-of-math skeptics in the mid-1900s to the postmodernists in the late 1900s to the math-denying activists in the early 2000s. Here for example is philosopher A. J. Ayer puncturing the objectivist balloon: “the principles of logic and
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