Contrasting liberal to cancel culture. Image and text versions below, should you want to modify for yourself. Cancel Culture defined Liberal Culture Cancel Culture Range of opinion? Expect diversity of Expect uniformity of Attitude toward those who disagree? Tolerance of the eccentric Hostility to the deviant Atmosphere encouraged? Benevolence Fear
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For Covid-19, select countries as of February 26, 2021: Israel: 87% UK: 29% USA: 20.6% Turkey: 10% Canada: 4.5% Argentina: 1.9% New Zealand: 0.02% Fuller source for statistics: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1194939/rate-covid-vaccination-by-county-worldwide/
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Following up on two posts on the achievements of modern anatomy (“The Knife Man” and “Anatomy and Philosophy”), here is St. Augustine (354-430) disapproving of the practice: “With a cruel zeal for science, some medical men, who are called anatomists, have dissected the bodies of the dead, and sometimes even of sick persons who have
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Our culture seems intent upon reviving the wisdom of those other ancient Greek philosophers: Mediocrates, Toiletes, and Idiocratus.
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Erik Torenberg is co-founder of Village Global, an early-stage venture capital fund backed by the founders of Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, and other leading companies. He hosts a podcast whose guests have ranged from Bill Gates to Tyler Cowen to Terry Gross to Deirdre McCloskey. In our discussion, we cover the content and impact of postmodern
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Professor Nazi Azad is working on a translation into Urdu of my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault.
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Bradford Harris is a Ph.D. from Stanford University in History of Science and Technology. Our 59-minute conversation ranges over these topics: Locations: everywhere podcasts are found, including Apple Podcasts and Spotify. YouTube link follows:
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What’s the ethics of driving up the price of GameStop stock?
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