Philosophy

A decade before the formal end of slavery in the entire USA, Frederick Douglass spoke on “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” on July 5, 1852, to the Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society in New York. “What, then, remains to be argued? Is it that slavery is not divine; that God did not […]

Action shot from my talk at the Galt’s Gulch event in San Diego: More event coverage here:

Collected from various online wags: “He got Aristhrottled.” Thief gasps: “I’m dying.” Professor says: “All of us are dying. The question is: Did you ever live?” “If a car thief dies in the woods … “ “I breathe, therefore I am. I can’t breathe, therefore … “

One side suggests 10%. The other side says 50%. They agree in principle and are merely negotiating degrees of implementation. Related: “Third Way” Politics and Its Fruits, on last generation’s mix of government-business partnerships.

I’ll be giving two talks at next week’s Galt’s Gulch conference in (hopefully) sunny San Diego, California. “Primitivism and Polarization—and the Power of Philosophy”: Deeply divided groups seem to dominate public discussion and generate a rhetorical race to the bottom. What is the evidence for increased polarization? What are the competing explanations for it? And

My essay is part of the just-published Springer volume Handbook of the Philosophical Foundations of Business Ethics, edited by professors Christoph Luetge and Marianne Thejls Ziegler. Abstract: Entrepreneurship is a value-laden enterprise that typically demands a character and virtue set, and has implications for some models of business ethics (e.g., corporate social responsibility), for poverty

Max Planck, 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics: “New scientific ideas never spring from a communal body, however organised, but rather from the head of an individually inspired researcher who struggles with his problems in lonely thought and unites all his thought on one single point which is his whole world for the moment.” (Source: Max

A hypothesis about the strange Left-Islamist alliance — both of them marching together to support Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Ayatollahs, and both hostile to USA, Israel, the West more broadly. Drawing upon two perceptive analysts, Friedrich Nietzsche and John Stuart Mill: * Nietzsche in 1887: “the truly great haters in world history have always been