[First published at EveryJoe.com.] Full disclosure at the outset: I’m a philosopher, and this new series of columns on The Good Life will often be about human nature, knowledge, the meaning of life, and of course politics. So let me start by indicating some of my colleagues’ opinions about politics. A favorite party game for […]
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My article “Liberalism: The Fifteen Best Arguments” [pdf] is now out in Reason Papers 37:2 (Fall 2015), pp. 108-132. I make fifteen arguments for the free society — the ones that I judge to be most essential and most influential. The arguments are: 1. Liberalism increases freedom 2. People work harder in liberal systems 3.
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Here’s a review of my Nietzsche i naziści. Moje spojrzenie, tłum. I. Kłodzińska, (Chojnice: Oficyna Wydawnicza Fundacji Fuhrmanna, 2014). Its author is Ks. Janusz Chyła, who is on the theology faculty at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland. It’s published in the journal Teologia i Człowiek. To my knowledge, this is the fifth scholarly
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Worth reading: David Ramsay Steele’s now-classic article on the intellectual origins and practical evolution of fascism — “The Mystery of Fascism.” “From 1912 to 1914, Mussolini was the Che Guevara of his day, a living saint of leftism. Handsome, courageous, charismatic, an erudite Marxist, a riveting speaker and writer, a dedicated class warrior to the
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Overnight on December 2-3, 1984, the worst industrial accident in history began. Thirty-one years later, what should we have learned? The Bhopal Chemical Spill Disaster: Who’s to Blame?
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Che Guevara was killed on October 9, 1967, so here is a quiz to test your knowledge of his guiding principles. (Click to enlarge.) For why our Che problem is more philosophical and less political, here is my article — “Our Che Guevara Problem” — in English and in Portuguese.
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In my Philosophy of Religion course, this week we are reading excerpts from the Koran and Seyyid Qutb’s influential Milestones. The Koran has many bloodthirsty passages as well as many suggesting qualified live-and-let-live policies. So we take up the question of whether Islam is essentially a religion of violence or peace. Qutb offered an influential
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I gave a talk in June at a conference sponsored by Fundación para la Responsabilidad Intelectual, Junior Achievement Argentina, and the John Templeton Foundation. I spoke (in English) on “Cómo las Revoluciones se Ganan o se Pierden,” or “How Revolutions are Won and Lost.” Here is a video of the talk:
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