Can universities heal themselves? Optimism or pessimism
I’m optimistic about young people and market feedback loops. One minute excerpted from my 2019 conversation at JBP’s site.
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Heidegger’s “House of Being” takes
Martin Heidegger’s poetic line from his later “Letter on Humanism” (1947): “Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.” Variations: For those of modest means: “Man dwells in the bungalow of Being.” For those on the road a lot: “Man dwells in the Holiday Inn of Being.” For rustic campers: “Man dwells
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A Good Year for Translations
Russian translation of *Battle for the Soul of the University* Spanish translation of *Nietzsche and the Nazis* — Kindle edition Persian translation of “Hitler and the Death of Free Speech” Polish translation of “Is Republishing Hitler’s Mein Kampf the Correct Decision?” Hebrew translation of *The Battle for the Soul of the University is Raging* Arabic
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SoHo debate quotes: Quine, Kuhn, Feyerabend, and Lentricchia
During my SoHo Forum debate with Thaddeus Russell in New York, I offered to send sources for the quotations I used. My claims were that philosophy had fallen into an unusually skeptical place in the middle of the 20th century, and that the first-generation postmodernists absorbed and applied that skepticism. Thanks to the debate audience
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Texts in Philosophy — mid-2019 additions
For use in my courses, additions to my Texts in Philosophy page. Condorcet, “Reflections on Negro Slavery” (1781). Jean-François Lyotard, “The Sublime and the Avant-Garde,” Chapter 7 of The Inhuman: Reflections on Time (1991). W. V. O. Quine, “Two Dogmas of Empiricism” (1951). James Rachels, “The Challenge of Cultural Relativism” (1999). Max Shulman, “Love Is
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YAL Silicon Valley talk today on how younger socialists think
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. The title and description of my talk: “Why Young Socialists Don’t Love Us — But They Should” Description: “The historical record of socialist poverty and brutality is clear, and we
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“Manifest Destiny” panel today at FreedomFest
I am in Las Vegas today and looking forward to participating in this three-way panel discussion and debate: It was the notion of “Manifest Destiny” that led to the very existence of the Wild West in America’s history. Inherent was the idea that expansion into the American west by settlers was not only inevitable but
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SoHo Forum debate results and impressions
The New York event was fast and fun, with a sold-out-wait-list-only crowd. Gene Epstein hosted and moderated. Comedian Dave Smith opened with some wry observations about current culture and politics. Thaddeus Russell was energetic and engaging in arguing that postmodernism is necessary for a politics of individual liberty. I argued the negative. Here are the
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