Early America had the Great Awakening—a movement of religious zeal and guilt and damnation.Late America has the Great Awokening. (Wikipedia on the Great Awakening: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Awakening.)
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Canadian philosopher Andrew Colgan, Ph.D., wrote this Pocket Guide to Postmodernism. I wrote an Introduction for it. Aimed at students and those looking to wrap their minds around the often-strange world of postmodernist ideas and activism, the Pocket Guide is a short, clearly written overview of the themes and arguments of my full-length book Explaining
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We’re now posting serially at thinkspot the transcripts of my Open College podcasts. Here’s the eighth: OC8: Toxic Waste at Love Canal—Who Really Cares About the Environment. “Love Canal is a classic example of unfortunately bad journalism combined with bad philosophy. Almost five decades now, that combination continues to infect our public thinking and public
At James Lindsay’s New Discourses site, check out Calum Anderson’s “A Postmodern Inquisition: Faculties of (Re)-Education?” Today, teacher training programs have embraced a secular orthodoxy in postmodernism, an ideology which exalts activism and social justice to the detriment of discourse and critical thinking. Ironically, today’s activists closely resemble Galileo’s inquisitors. While dissenting voices may not
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I was a guest, along with the excellent Marian Tupy, on the TASA show hosted by Jennifer Grossman. We discuss the origins of Cato’s Human Progress project, how we entered the Age of Abundance, social media and the patience needed to deal with online brutalism, the many positive social indicators of modernity, whether optimism vs.
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This week we feature Socialists Define Socialism. Eight prominent socialists offer their definitions of their desired system: *Intellectuals: Karl Marx (Germany), Henri de Saint-Simon (France), Robert Heilbroner (USA), Michael Harrington (USA). * Politicians: Vladimir Lenin (Russia), Mao Zedong (China), Clement Atlee (Britain), Jawaharlal Nehru (India). Waterfall is a guided series of courses for everyone interested in
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In preparation for my Saturday livestream lecture at thinkspot (Slavery: Who Deserves *Credit* for Ending It), here’s a sobering-but-fascinating three-minute animated video of where the slaves went. URL: http://www.slate.com/articles/life/the_history_of_american_slavery/2015/06/animated_interactive_of_the_history_of_the_atlantic_slave_trade.html Information about Saturday: The horrors of slavery get much deserved attention, and slavery’s legacy remains as an important lesson — as well as a contentious feeder
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