In a session organized by Peter Calcagno (College of Charleston) on the theme of Philosophy of Freedom (APEE Session 2.F.7, Monday, April 10, 2017, 2:30-3:45 pm), I’ll be speaking on the theme of “What Does It Mean to Educate for Freedom?” In part, my talk will draw on my “What Entrepreneurship Can Teach Us All About Life” article
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Universities are political places, but there’s good politics and bad. First point: The protesting students are neither “snowflakes” who can’t take the heat nor “delicate flowers” whose feelings have been bruised. University students have seen movie violence, broken up with boyfriends and girlfriends, read ugly things on the internet, viewed porn clips, lost grandparents, and
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The Right says: If drugs are legal, people will shoot up, and society will go to hell. The Left says: If guns are legal, people will shoot-em up, and society will go to hell. Word-play aside, other options are possible: The authoritarians say: People can’t be trusted with either. The (true) liberals say: We can
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At ESEADE University in Buenos Aires, Argentina, three professors will debate the merits and demerits of liberalism — based on my “Liberalism: The Fifteen Best Arguments,” published recently in Reason Papers.
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“What protection teaches us to do to ourselves in time of peace is what enemies seek to do to us in time of war.” (Henry George)
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[Reposting this now, just for fun.] Brazil a century ago: “Sarah Bernhardt [the French actress] in 1886 … shocked [Brazilian] society with her daring swimsuit and alarmed the city’s inhabitants by entering the water … . At the time, Brazilians had believed a quick dip in the sea had some medical efficacy, but only around
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G. W. F. Hegel: “From the Kantian system and its completion I expect a revolution in Germany.” Johann Holderlin: “Kant is the Moses of our nation.” “Within a few years of the publication of his Critique of Pure Reason in 1781, Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) was recognized by his contemporaries as one of the seminal thinkers
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