For use in my courses, additions to my Texts in Philosophy page. Martin Luther King, Jr., “Address at the Freedom Rally in Cobo Hall,” 1963. [His first “I have a dream” speech.] Herbert Marcuse, “Repressive Tolerance” (1965). George Walsh, “Defining Religion: The Supernatural as Personal/Impersonal” (1998). Excerpt from The Role of Religion in History. Woodrow […]
Texts in Philosophy — mid-2020 additions Read More »
The common factors? None from Australia or the Americas. None are women. None are political individualists or free-market capitalists. So … * Six were socialists. * Three came to dictatorial power from military backgrounds. * And one was a hereditary monarch. Image source: https://www.infobae.com/america/mundo/2018/09/29/los-10-dictadores-mas-sanguinarios-del-siglo-xx/
Top ten political killers Read More »
We’re now posting serially at thinkspot the transcripts of my Open College podcasts. Here’s the third: OC3:
Conservatives Are Not Free-market Capitalists [Open College transcript] Read More »
In May, I led a discussion with the Atlas Intellectuals on George Orwell’s review of The Totalitarian Enemy. The question Orwell asked was: Are the Nazis really Socialist? I’m returning to the group on Friday, June 26 at noon CT to discuss the new Waterfall campaign on Objectivity, beginning with selections from John Stuart Mill’s
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The Atlas Society’s CEO, Jennifer Grossman, interviewed me about this year’s major events — Covid-19 and the protests/riots/looting. What is the philosophical significance of these events? Facebook. YouTube:
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Juneteenth celebrates a great achievement. Slavery had existed for thousands of year in pretty much every culture in the world. But a few brave and lonely voices began to challenge it in the 1700s and within a century—almost a blink of an eye in historical time—it had been eliminated in the civilized parts of the
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Here’s my two-minute trailer for my livestream lecture series starting tomorrow, June 20: Join me in this 3-session course co-organized by thinkspot and Ayn Rand Center Latin America. * Session 1: June, Saturday 20th, 12-1 pm Central. On Altruism: Both Nietzsche and Rand are vehement opponents of altruism. Why? And in what ways are their
Ayn Rand’s summary of Nietzsche as philosopher and as poet Read More »
Here’s the two-minute trailer for my June livestream lectures: Join me in this 3-session course co-organized by thinkspot and Ayn Rand Center Latin America. * Session 1: June, Saturday 20th, 12-1 pm Central. On Altruism: Both Nietzsche and Rand are vehement opponents of altruism. Why? And in what ways are their critiques similar and
Nietzsche on “philosophers” of reason. (They’re liars.) Read More »