Rafe Champion emails me: “Collingwood’s book An Essay on Metaphysics (1940) looks as though he saw POMO coming early in the piece. Chapter 13, “The Propaganda of Irrationalism,” depicts with chilling accuracy the process that occurs in many courses where the critical faculties of students are systematically destroyed. Collingwood first asks us to picture a civilisation […]
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Theist vs. Atheist: What Should You Believe? is a seven-part series of articles by two authors, John C. Wright and Stephen R. C. Hicks, in which they debate seven key issues in religion. Are Reason and Faith Compatible? Stephen R. C. Hicks I appreciate Mr. Wright’s opening essay and am in agreement with substantial portions
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My late-2018 Mill Series lecture. The lecture, Q&A, and post-Q&A conversation ran for almost four hours. Professor Brandon Van Dyck has edited the material, organizing it thematically and providing a useful set of headings. The result is below and at YouTube:
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My discussion with Australia’s Tim Wilms ranges over the regressive left, trigger warnings, microaggressions, what enabled the return of Marxism and socialism, how capitalism is good for environmental health, and what’s important in Ayn Rand’s philosophy. Available in video or audio formats, or at YouTube: Related: My Adventures in Postmodernism tour, Australia, March 2019.
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[A translation into Portuguese (by Matheus Pacini) of my “Postmodernism’s Moral Low Ground”, first published in The Spectator (Australia).] Estamos lutando contra os pós-modernistas com uma mão amarrada nas costas? Batalhas intelectuais são a força vital de uma sociedade saudável. A vida é complicada e de alto risco, logo, pessoas racionais têm muito a debater. O
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[A translation into Spanish by Fermin Elizalde of my Open College episode, “Your Sex Life Under Socialism.”] El socialismo se define de manera estándar como la propiedad colectiva de los medios de producción. ¿Qué implica eso para tu vida sexual? A veces, el socialismo se concibe más estrechamente como una doctrina económica acerca de la
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The next three episodes in my Open College series have been recorded: “On Being the Entrepreneur of Your Life” “Postmodernism’s Moral Low Ground” “Educating Entrepreneurs, Or Why Steve Jobs Hated School.” They’ll be released weekly over the next month. Here is the full series.
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A new episode of my podcast series, produced by Possibly Correct out of Toronto. Audio: iTunes Stitcher YouTube Topics: Envy-charge against socialism // Envy-charge against liberal capitalism // Rousseau and Rawls on how to combat envy // So: Is envy worse or better in a free society? // Envy as a worse anti-social problem in earlier societies //
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