For the first time in my life, I tried to buy wine online. We’d had a tasty Malbec in a restaurant and, in part inspired by a friend’s small collection of favorite wines, I decided to buy a case of the Malbec from an online distributor that also has about twenty stores in the Chicagoland […]
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Raj Mahal, a former Wall Street trader who is now a comedian, reports this conversation: ‘Last week I was talking to this girl at a bar and she asked me what I did. I told her I am a comic but I used to work on Wall Street. She said, “Thank god. Because all Wall
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15 Pairs of Contradictory Proverbs James Barnett, The People’s Almanac #2, p. 1121. 1. Look before you leap. He who hesitates is lost. 2. If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Don’t beat your head against a stone wall. 3. Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Out of sight, out of mind. 4.
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Stephen R. C. Hicks Traducido al Español por Fermín Elizalde. Podcast in English. Tanta brutalidad ha surgido de activistas inspirados en Marx. Podríamos pensar que es solo un subproducto accidental de una teoría bien intencionada. ¿O es realmente una consecuencia necesaria e intencional de sus principios? Para empezar, ¿qué quiero decir con la larga historia
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RIPOL Classic Publishing (Moscow) is producing a Russian edition of the Expanded Edition of Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault. The publisher kindly sent me a draft image of the cover. The publication date for this translation is spring 2021. The book’s thesis: The failure of epistemology made postmodernism possible, and the failure
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My article “Liberal Education and Its Postmodern Critics,” published in the scholarly journal Academic Questions, is now available here. From the opening: It is a truism to say that education is politicized. Yet my goal here is to show that politicized battles over education are mostly not about politics but about philosophy. Policy battles are
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These books were published in 1776: Thomas Paine, Common Sense Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Adam Smith, On the Wealth of Nations Thomas Jefferson et al., The Declaration of Independence Denis Diderot, Encyclopédie (published in its entirety for first time) David Hume, Autobiography Also in 1776, in Paris Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
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Por Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D. Traducido al Español por Fermin Elizalde, 2020. (Original English.) Stephen R. C. Hicks es Profesor en Filosofía en la Universidad de Rockford. Su libro más reciente es Explicando el Postmodernismo: Escepticismo y Socialismo Desde Rousseau a Foucault (Ockham’s Razor, 2011). Es una obviedad decir que la educación está politizada.
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