In Bhopal, India, in 1984 chemicals spilled out of an industrial plant, killing and damaging tens of thousands of people. The long-term death toll is about 16,000 people, making it the worst human-caused environmental disaster in history. It’s important to understand why that happened. In the high-tech society we strive to be, it is essential […]
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Our commentary on current events. This week’s topics: Inflation at 7% Why and what next? Free speech survey in universities, gender gap results: young women much more likely to want to ban words; a significant minority of young men also agree with bans. Progress: Pig heart transplanted into human. SCOTUS strikes down vaccine mandates. The
Current Events with Stephen Hicks and Richard Salsman. Read More »
This is a great opening: “Once upon a time I got interested in theories of economic development because I had studied a low-income country, poorer than Congo, with life expectancy half as long and infant mortality three times as high as the average developing country. “That country is my own country, Sweden—less than 150 years
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Two-minute answers to key questions about philosophy, politics, art, and the meaning of life. Filmed in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The full series is published at the CEE Video Channel. Description: At some point in our lives, we each ask ourselves the big questions. How we respond has great impact on our lives. Some accept easy
Is ambition good? | Philosophy for Real Life (16 of 22) | Stephen Hicks Read More »
In collaboration with Sprouts educational videos, here is our three-part series on Nietzsche’s provocative account of traditional morality and the need to go beyond good and evil. Part 1: God is Dead. (7 minutes) Part 2: Sheep and Wolves. (6 minutes) Part 3: Master and Slaves. (7 minutes)
God is dead, Wolves and Sheep, Masters and Slaves — all three Nietzsche animation videos Read More »
Philosophically, Jordan Peterson is a kind of Pragmatist. Religiously, he is a kind of Christian. What does that combination mean? My Open College podcast on “Jordan Peterson’s Religion” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1J65eVP6to): Related: My full Open College podcast series.
When a teacher named Jean Thompson stood in front of her fifth-grade class on the very first day of school in the fall, she told the children a lie. Like most teachers, she looked at her pupils and said that she loved them all the same, that she would treat them all alike. And that
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