I used to say that Illinois had the worst governors in the nation, when four of the last eight had gone to prison for corruption and scandal. (See Illinois Governors in Jail.) Now New York has had three governors in a row forced out due to corruption: Elliot Spitzer (2008 resignation), David Patterson (2010 resignation),
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I did this pair of seminars comparing two controversial giants of moral philosophy, followed by a Q&A. My presentation is in English, after the introduction in Spanish by María Marty. Hosted by the Ayn Rand Center Latin America.
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“La Inferioridad Moral del Posmodernismo.” Por Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D. ¿Estamos luchando contra los posmodernistas con una mano atada a la espalda? Traducido al Español por Fermin Elizalde, 2019. Para más artículos en español sobre Educación y Filosofía: https://www.stephenhicks.org/espanol/ English Original version: The Spectator. Also Portuguese translation and Open College audio version.
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Thanks to Mark V. Kormes for the link to ContraPoint’s vlog on envy. It’s an excellent diagnosis of this pathology — including apt insights from Aristotle, Nietzsche, Paglia, and other important names. And she’s even read Schoeck’s masterwork Envy. Contrapoints’s video is well worth your time for its coverage of envy’s many manifestations. Towards the
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Just imagine the reactions: “Love and sex are important, and children need to learn about healthy and dysfunctional relationships and their history. Accordingly, all schools should include CRT — that is, Christian Relationship Theory — in their curricula.”
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James Lindsay and I focus on the influential Jean-Jacques Rousseau, whose anti-Enlightenment ideology is very much in fashion again after the disasters of Marxist socialism in the 20th century. Bad ideas don’t go away after failure — they get repackaged and re-introduced in other guises. Discussion hosted by Michael O’Fallon. From the description: When you
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In this unit of the Objectivity course we feature Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, in which he questions whether science is or can be an objective process based upon observational facts that makes progress toward truth. Thomas Kuhn was a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, a
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The cartoon is politically correct. Benito Mussolini on his political roots: “It was inevitable that I should become a Socialist ultra, a Blanquist, indeed a communist. I carried about a medallion with Marx’s head on it in my pocket.” (Source: 1932 interview with biographer Emil Ludwig.) And then Mussolini’s predictions for the future: “it may
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