Vaccination rates by country, update
As of April 23, 2021. Source. Vaccine effectiveness and country of origin.
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Philosophy
The Bakke affirmative action case
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (438 U.S. 265) is a landmark decision about affirmative action decided in 1978 by the US Supreme Court. It upheld the lower court’s affirming that Allan Bakke should be admitted to UCD’s medical school and that racial quotas were unconstitutional but also upheld affirmative action, allowing race
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The anti-Romantics — Samuel Beckett edition
The absurdist Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1969. He’s most famous for Waiting for Godot (a play in which pretty much nothing happens in the first act, only to be repeated in the second), was also the author of a novel entitled Molloy. Here is the main character, Molloy, reminiscing
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Chauvin verdict, Gun control, Covid-19 successes
On this week’s Current Events program with Kelley and Salsman, hosted by Oddino.
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¿Tiene Kant un lugar en el liberalismo clásico?
Stephen R. C. Hicks Traducido al Español por Fermín Elizalde. Original English publication: “Does Kant Have a Place in Classical Liberalism?” in Cato Unbound. La respuesta es complicada. Cualquier lectura de la gran masa de escritos de Kant nos ofrece inicialmente una mezcla de argumentos liberales y anti liberales que se encuentran e conflicto. Él defendió
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Anagrams of “Stephen Hicks”
Apparently the letters of my name are quite fertile in generating significant possibilities. * Highlighting some art: Sketch He Pins * Due to showering regularly: Stench He Skip * When writing about some kinds of art: Kitsch He Pens * A game followed by a nap: Chess Then Kip * When getting a sun burn:
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“A difference with Jordan Peterson on Enlightenment foundations” [Five-minute excerpt]
How different are Stephen Hicks’s and Jordan Peterson’s views on the origins of the Enlightenment? Was Christianity essential or a hindrance?
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Socialism as *moral* failure (Den Uyl and Rasmussen quotation)
Well said, and a strong analogy: “Socialism is no more successful in ethics than in economics, and for similar reasons: it sacrifices the future to the present by discouraging innovation and inverts the source of positive marginal change by moving it from the individual to society. Ethical wealth, like economic wealth, will be a function
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