Elizabeth Warren and the doulos
Elizabeth Warren’s recent remarks offer a striking glimpse into one prominent strain of American political thought.
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Academic Entrepreneurship conference
I’m back from a two-day conference in Chicago on the theme of “Academic Entrepreneurship.” The sessions were helpful to me as someone who works to combine a traditional academic career with running an entrepreneurial center. So thanks to Dr. William Kline of the University of Illinois, Springfield, Dr. Matthew Brown of the Academy on Capitalism
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A good year for Explaining Postmodernism
The Portuguese translation was published in Brazil, a Serbo-Croatian translation of the first chapter was published, and a new, expanded edition was published last month in Kindle and this month in a snazzy hardcover. Samples from the scholarly reviewers of the first edition: “By the end of Explaining Postmodernism, the reader may remain ill at
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Portuguese edition of Explaining Postmodernism published
I’m happy to announce that the Portuguese translation of my Explaining Postmodernism has been published in Brazil by Callis Editora. Here are links to Callis’s website in Portuguese and English. I will check into the availability of the book outside Brazil and follow up.
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Serbo-Croatian translation of Chapter One of Explaining Postmodernism
Alma Causevic has translated the first chapter of my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault. The Kindle version of the expanded edition came out last month and the hardcover will be out later this month.
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Neat graphic: evolution of teaching technologies
Courtesy of: OnlineSchools.com
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A fowl saga
Driving home today along a country road, I witnessed a rare event: A vulture playing chicken with a falcon over a turkey carcass. The vulture was a real vulture working a real turkey carcass near the edge of the road, stopping only to face down an oncoming car, which turned out to be an older
Do conservatives value economic liberty?
The question matters because many smart libertarians and conservatives, Bryan Caplan included, are wondering whether the two groups can overcome their differences, either for short-term coalitions on particular issues and elections or to create a longer-term movement. My view is that the philosophical differences between the two militate against long-term compatibility, though there are prospects
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