A favorite quotation: “Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.” Source: Zora Neale Hurston, “How It Feels to Be Colored Me” (1928).
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From this WSJ review of Abigail Carroll’s Three Squares, a book about American eating habits across the centuries, here are two eyebrow-raising excerpts. 1. In 1744, a traveler was invited to eat a meal with a ferryman and his family. The traveler describes it this way in his journal: “They had no cloth upon the
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Brazil a century ago: “Sarah Bernhardt [the French actress] in 1886 … soon shocked [Brazilian] society with her daring swimsuit and alarmed the city’s inhabitants by entering the water … . At the time, Brazilians had believed a quick dip in the sea had some medical efficacy, but only around dawn before the sun became
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Episodes: The full playlist. Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, USA, and has had visiting positions at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., the University of Kasimir the Great in Poland, Oxford University’s Harris Manchester College in England, and Jagiellonian University in Poland.
Reprising this post from 2016, using this very clear and representative list of experiences that one can check off or not. Some are positive, others are irritating, and some are infuriating for those who experience them. The purpose of the list is (in part) to help one realize how good/challenged/frustrated/damaged one’s life is. But note
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The Sexual One Percent We have a fairness problem in the United States: The pleasures of sex are unequally distributed across the population. Data from scholarly publications reveal the following: * Artists self-report having sex 2.3 times as often as non-artists. * Gay males have significantly more sex than heterosexual males. * Regular church-goers, especially
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In case you missed it: Related: Professor Hicks’s Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault.
The seeds of woke culture | Dangerous Thoughts podcast with Stephen Hicks Read More »
If the pursuit of truth is rejected on postmodern grounds, what replaces it? In this invited lecture, Dr. Hicks surveys key educational ideas from pre-modern times, the modern era, and our post-modern times. Ancient education often stressed discipline, obedience and rule following, while modern thinkers such as Galileo, Locke, and Montaigne stressed independent judgment and
Professor Lentricchia on the use of Power in the Classroom [Pope Lecture Series] Read More »