“Kids these days!”
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Philosophy
Rizzo on Paternalism and Economics
Professor Mario Rizzo presents his new book Escaping Paternalism (Cambridge University Press, 2020). The book is co-authored with Glen Whitman. I love the cover image. Rizzo is a professor in the Economics Department at New York University and a deep-thinking scholar. Here’s his one-hour lecture at Brown University on the book’s themes:
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Champagne’s new book on Jordan Peterson’s ideas
Philosopher Marc Champagne has published what I believe to be the first scholarly work on Jordan Peterson’s overall worldview. I read the book in manuscript and liked it and contributed a back-cover blurb for it: “Philosopher Marc Champagne’s analytic skills are impressively on display as he presents and variously dissects, agrees with, and critiques Jordan Peterson’s
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Texts in Philosophy — early 2020 additions
For use in my courses, additions to my Texts in Philosophy page. General Friedrich von Bernhardi, excerpts from Germany and the Next War (1911). C. S. Lewis. “Social Morality”, Book 3, Chapter 3 of Mere Christianity (1952). [On Christian ethics, leftism, socialism, money, and the charging of interest.] George Orwell, “Review of The Totalitarian Enemy
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Ad-Dajjal reviews *Nietzsche and the Nazis*
Al-Masih Ad-Dajjal published his extended review of my Nietzsche and the Nazis in December 2019. I like this part: “His writing talent is praiseworthy: clarity, historical competency, willingness to engage opponents with charity. There are occasions throughout the listening of his audiobook where one is moved by way of his descriptions of Nietzschean philosophy, a
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Arabic translation of *Explaining Postmodernism* published
I cannot read this, but I am happy to know it exists: شرح ما بعد الحداثة: الشكوكية و الإشتراكية من روسو إلى فوكو Ayoub Salhi and Anouar Elmekki have produced and published this Arabic translation of my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault. The book’s thesis: The failure of epistemology made postmodernism
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Index of Moral Freedom
Countries ranked in five areas of moral freedom: Category A. Religious indicators. How free is the practice of any religion or none, and how religious-controlled is the state. Category B. Bioethical indicators. How free is individual decision making on matters posing bioethical questions. Category C. Drugs indicators. How free is the production, trade and consumption
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In Washington, podcast today with John Tamny
I’m recording a podcast with the excellent John Tamny in the Freedomworks studio. More information about the topic and release date to come. Tamny writes at Real Clear Markets and has a new book out: They’re Both Wrong.
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