Let me tell you a bed-time story that involves humans and gods and present a philosophical question dating back a few thousand of years: The story of Arachne and Athena …
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I’ll be speaking (by Zoom) at the Media Entrepreneurial Marathon today (November 21, 2020) at 9:30 Central Time. The conference is sponsored by a large group of Latin American idea and entrepreneurship organizations committed to creative and business freedom. Related: How great artists become great: Liszt. Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky. Beethoven. Creative geniuses as selfish: Maria
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The Homestead Riot of 1892 was a watershed event in American business history. At the Homestead Steel Works near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, union leaders and workers rejected wage cuts proposed by owner Andrew Carnegie and plant manager Henry Frick. Negotiations failed, a strike began, the plant was closed, workers armed themselves, Pinkerton security forces were called
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My Explaining Postmodernism was recently published in Hebrew translation, which led to this interview with Israeli scientist Roi Yozevitch. We focus on the inroads that political correctness and postmodernism are making are making into science. Dr. Roi Yozevitch, “Free Speech and PC in Academia, Science and Society. A conversation with Professor Stephen Hicks.”
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We’re now posting serially at thinkspot the transcripts of my Open College podcasts. Here’s the fifteenth: We’ve all run into teachers who think like this: There is One Truth and I am in possession of it. So important is it that students must believe it and it alone. Alternative ideas are a waste of time
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One datum. Here is Michel Foucault explaining why the proletariat engage in class warfare: “The proletariat doesn’t wage war against the ruling class because it considers such a war to be just. The proletariat makes war with the ruling class because … it wants to take power.” The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature That’s from
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1. Why does reason even matter? 2. What’s important about the Enlightenment? 3. Kant’s “Copernican Revolution” — a counter-Enlightenment subjectivism? 4. Canada and the USA as importers of ideas from Europe? 5. Common themes in Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche? 6. Subjective passionism contra liberal democracy? 7. Which groups will dominate in the conflict? 8. Why are
Canada Strong and Free Network interview — Troy Lanigan Read More »
Liberal education under threat. Guided by moderator Ravi Lakhani (London, UK) , Professor Louis Marinoff (New York, USA) and I had a lively exchange diagnosing and offering solutions to the attacks. The description: “Historically, universities are bastions of academic freedom. They are melting pots where ideas battle for supremacy. With the rise of cancel-culture and
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