Two items jumped out at me in this Washington Post report about the terrible destruction of the Surfside-Miami-area building: 1. In 2018, the condo association hired a private engineering firm to examine the building: “In an October 2018 report, engineer Frank P. Morabito wrote that he had discovered “major structural damage” … 2. Despite that, a
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Professor Nazir Azad sent to me a working draft of his translation into Urdu of my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault. The image is an excerpt. I can’t read it, but I’m happy to see it. Urdu has 170 million speakers, making it the 11th most-spoken language in the world. Information
Urdu translation of Explaining Postmodernism — update Read More »
Episode 50 in my Open College with Dr. Stephen Hicks podcast series. Many rejections of objectivity assume from the outset an impossible standard for humans to achieve. Don’t do that. All audio versions of the podcast are available free at my website, YouTube, Bitchute, Apple Podcasts, SoundCloud. Some transcriptions are available via my media page
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Young Karl Marx, full of Sturm und Drang and apocalyptic fervor, wrote poetry expressing his strongest desires. Two excerpts, the first from Feelings (1836): “Worlds I would destroy for ever, Since I can create no world, Since my call they notice never, Coursing dumb in magic whirl.” And the second from The Fiddler (1837): “I
Seven items, First, in 1776, in the first draft of the Declaration of Independence: “He [the King of England] has waged a cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in
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In this week of the Atlas Intellectualls course on Slavery we cover Frederick Douglass’s “To My Old Master.” Douglass had escaped slavery and become a leader of the abolitionist movement by the time he wrote this 1848 public letter to Thomas Auld—on the anniversary of his escape. Douglass describes his experiences as a slave, his
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Last year, philosopher Marc Champagne published the first scholarly work on Jordan Peterson’s overall worldview. I read the book in manuscript and contributed a blurb for it: “Philosopher Marc Champagne’s analytic skills are impressively on display as he presents and variously dissects, agrees with, and critiques Jordan Peterson’s hugely ambitious project to integrate modern science with
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