I agree with the university’s decision to drop Wilson’s name. The man’s anti-individualism came in many terrible versions: racist, socialist, and statist-democratic. Here’s Professor Wilson, before he became President, endorsing democratic socialism: ‘State socialism’ … proposes that all idea of a limitation of public authority by individual rights be put out of view, and that […]
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Via Ryerson’s Centre for Free Expression: “Something very wrong has happened at the University of Alberta. A professor has been fired from part of her academic job for views on sex and gender that break with current orthodoxy. “In late March, Kathleen Lowrey … was asked to resign … on the basis that one or
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thinkspot’s Mike Nayna’s three-part series on Evergreen College’s pomo/SJW ideolological culture and the ensuing racist-political-correctness-witch-hunt.
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In Washington, D.C., a 27-minute conversation with John Tamny (author of They’re Both Wrong) on higher education, socialism, and whether to be optimistic about the younger generation.
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My talk at Clemson University, part of their Pope Lecture Series, is now online. I especially enjoyed the many intelligent questions from students after my formal remarks. A Postmodern Critique of Liberal Education Lecture by Dr. Stephen Hicks
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I don’t know who compiled this list, but it’s an excellent collection of online resources. 51+ Things To Do While You’re at Home Virtual Museum Tours 1. British Museum in London 2. Guggenheim Museum, New York 3. National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. 4. Musée d’Orsay, Paris 5. National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul 6. Pergamon Museum, Berlin
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Christine Jackman on getting past the toxicity of much social media and other conversations. Ms. Jackman will be the MC for the inaugural The Brisbane Dialogues next month, in which I’ll be debating Professor John Quiggin about whether postmodernism is a right-wing phenomenon.
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This is still true: “The university teacher should, if he is fit for his position, be a person of a fair and judicial mind; he should, in dealing with such subjects, set forth justly, without suppression or innuendo, the divergent opinions of other investigators and he should, above all, remember that his business is not