Second Jordan Peterson interview — video released
A podcast version is here. Our first discussion (2017) is here at YouTube or here in transcription.
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Philosophy
Abortion is not a men-versus-women issue
Three data points: 1. The 1973 Roe v. Wade case was decided 7-2 by an all-male court. 2. A 2018 Gallup poll showed statistically small-to-trivial differences between men and women’s beliefs about whether abortion should be legal in all cases, illegal in all cases, or legal/illegal in some cases. 3. A 2018 Pew survey also
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Smith’s *Judicial Review in an Objective Legal System*
Professor Tara Smith’s fine book on the philosophy of law, Judicial Review in an Objective Legal System, was published by Cambridge University Press. The journal Reason Papers has this very good symposium review by Timothy Sandefur and response by Tara Smith.
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Audiobook: *Ayn Rand and Contemporary Business Ethics* published
I’m happy to announce a new audio edition of my “Ayn Rand and Business Ethics” has been published at Audible. Thanks to the team at The Atlas Society for producing it. The essay was originally published in The Journal of Accounting, Ethics & Public Policy and has since been translated into Korean, German, Serbo-Croatian, and
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Table of Contents page for my *Zrozumieć postmodernizm*
The Polish translation by Professor Piotr Kostyło and Katarzyna Nowak of my Explaining Postmodernism was published by the University of Kasimir the Great Press. Here’s the table of contents: For other editions and translations, see my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault page.
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Kant, Herz and fearing insanity
Marcus Herz was Immanuel Kant’s friend, a former student, and a well-educated man — he qualified as a physician and eventually became a professor of philosophy. Yet, “when Kant gave the MS. of the Critique to his friend Herz, a man much versed in speculation, Herz returned it half read, saying he feared insanity if
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The Clouds and “Socrates”
The comic genius of Aristophanes, in which “Socrates” the sacrilegious philosopher explains to the not-too-bright Strepsiades where rain and thunder come from. Potty humor ensues. Socrates: That is because these are the only goddesses; all the rest are pure myth. Strepsiades: But by the Earth! is our father, Zeus, the Olympian, not a god? Socrates: Zeus!
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Christian Socialism and C. S. Lewis [Open College series]
A new episode of my podcast series, produced by Possibly Correct out of Toronto. Audio: iTunes Stitcher YouTube Topics: Should Christians be socialists, and was C.S. Lewis a socialist? // Mere Christianity‘s themes // Liberal-libertarian principles — free-market economics and property rights, competence to run your own life, self-responsibility, self-respect and dignity for all, universalism
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