How different are Stephen Hicks’s and Jordan Peterson’s views on the origins of the Enlightenment? Was Christianity essential or a hindrance?
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Link at the UConn site. “Isadore Johnson is a junior economics and political science major at the University of Connecticut. He’s the co-founder of UConn’s chapter of Young Americans For Liberty, is a local coordinator for Students for Liberty, and writes for various news outlets in his spare time when he’s not climbing. “Isadore interviews
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According to his biographer: Karajan seems to have spent the greater part of his like seeking the one thing he believed would make him completely happy: absolute mastery over his own destiny. Richard Osborne, Herbert von Karajan: A Life in Music, Northeastern University Press, 1998, p. 33 Related: How other great artists became great:Igor Stravinsky
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[This was posted anonymously on the web some years ago. I don’t know who the author is (Update: now I do), but I’m not inviting him to my kid’s next birthday party.] I am better than your kids. By Anonymous If you work in an office with lots of people, chances are that you work
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Why should the front of a painting be privileged over its back? Virtually all art is shown one side only — the arbitrarily chosen “front” side. Meanwhile, the “back” is consigned to obscurity and neglect. Yet there’s nothing inherently superior about the blank surface chosen to have paints bestowed upon it. It neither earned nor
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I was long-form interviewed by Ryan Faulkner-Hogg of Atlas Geographica on this range of topics:: Introduction: 00:00 Aesthetics: 03:04 Do You Practice Art? 08:33 Modern “analytic” art, Modern “pessimist/expressionist” art, & Postmodern “deconstructive” art 10:24 Duchamp’s urinal 32:25 Objectivism v. Subjectivism: 39:30 BLM (benevolent v. Trojan Horse versions) & Marxism: 52:57 Hicks’s Formative Years: 1:00:00
Ryan Faulkner-Hogg (Sweden) podcast on Nietzsche, Art, BLM, and more Read More »
What a good song — and new to me: Lesley Gore’s “You Don’t Own Me”: You don’t own me I’m not just one of your many toys You don’t own me Don’t say I can’t go with other boys And don’t tell me what to do Don’t tell me what to say And please, when
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What made Rudolf Nureyev an outstanding dancer? Some insights from biographer Julie Kavanagh’s Rudolf Nureyev: The Life. On his focus as a student and his eliminating non-essentials from his life: “I’ve always tended to reject everything in life which doesn’t enrich or directly concern my single dominating passion.” A fellow student noted: “When Rudolf arrived
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