Coming in August 2021. “In this small but powerful book you will discover: * how modernist reduction led to postmodern nihilism; * why postmodern aesthetics is self-defeating; * how understanding this enables to us to unseat it and replace it with meaningful art; * how good aesthetics leads to flourishing ends; * and how being […]
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Educación Liberal y Sus Críticas Posmodernas Por Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D. Es una obviedad decir que la educación está politizada. Sin embargo, mi objetivo aquí es mostrar que las batallas politizadas por la educación no se tratan principalmente de política sino de filosofía. Las batallas políticas toman temperatura, no sólo porque es alto lo
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NASA government budget: $23.3 billion. That’s money taken from citizens via compulsory taxation. Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic budget: Less than $1 billion. That’s money earned through voluntary trade. Which one is being complained about says much about the moral character of the complainer.
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Deb FIllman long-form interviewed me for The Reason We Learn. Topics (with timestamps): 00:00 Preamble 01:49 Introduction 02:01 Global Problems are Too Big for Children 06:29 Intentional Indoctrination? 07:43 Is the current educational crisis philosophical? 09:48 What is it to be a human being? 11:04 The conflict of visions 16:28 How would you describe the
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A striking line from German-American historian Walter Laqueur on early 20th-century transformation of the arts: “The painters were fascinated by ugliness; the composers threw harmony overboard, gradually moving towards dissonance; the poets and playwrights were preoccupied with the madness of great cities, parenticide and rats emerging from rotting corpses.” (Laqueur, Walter. Weimar: A Cultural History,
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1. Batista first came to power in Cuba by being elected to office. He ran as head of the Democratic Socialist party, a coalition supported also by the Cuban Communist Party. The image is of an election poster. (History lesson: Beware of democratic socialists. They’re often wolves in sheep’s clothing.) 2. The US-embargo means there
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My 20-minute talk for the City of Ideas festival in Puebla, Mexico is online here. In English with Spanish subtitles. I use four examples — two good and two awful — from the history of medicine to frame my recommendations for transforming education.
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I’m in Rapid City, South Dakota today, speaking at 2 p.m. local time on “Democratic Socialism for Beginners.” The full FreedomFest lineup of speakers and sessions is here.
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