Read this passage from a memoir of being young in 1920s Germany, and compare the 2020s: “A generation of young Germans,” [Sebastian] Haffner writes, “had become accustomed to having the entire content of their lives delivered gratis, so to speak, by the public sphere.” The stability that followed Gustav Stresemann’s becoming chancellor in 1923 marked […]
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Calls for “Government-Business cooperation” to run the economy should be seen as skeptically as calls for “Government-Religion cooperation” to manage our minds and souls.
Government and Business cooperation? Read More »
My long-form discussion with Truman and Kevin on: What are the major differences between Marx’s socialism and Rousseau’s socialism? Why Rousseau is more important than Marx in today’s culture wars? What does being an adult mean, now that we’re so rich and free? Were the French Revolutionaries Rousseau’s disciples? The book under discussion: Explaining Postmodernism:
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Por Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D. Vamos a dejar de lado la política para centrarnos en la ética: ¿Es el sexo con robots algo bueno o algo malo? Traducido al Español por María Marty, 2016. Para más artículos en español: https://www.stephenhicks.org/espanol/. The original English version: “Sex with Robots? The Ethics.”
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Source: THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, March 25, 1991 Age-old practices spread lethal modern virus By Lorerta Tofani, Inquirer Staff Writer MACHAKOS, Kenya — The balding medicine man sharpened his pocketknife with another knife, filling his small rural office with the screech of metal. Then, dipping the smaller blade into a jar of herbs, he made two
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Our next session will ask: “Is Capitalism Good or Bad for the Poor?” Marx said the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Pro-capitalists show data that in capitalist nations both rich and poor get richer. What then, retort the anti-capitalists, of the many poor people still in capitalist nations? When: Wednesday, December 8,
This 2019 book published by Routledge, a mainstream educational publisher, crossed my social-media horizon today, so I read through the material available via Amazon’s “Look Inside” feature. The volume seems to be CRT-lite or a usual expression of concerns about racism. In either case, I didn’t notice anything indicating a heavy-duty advocacy of Critical Theory.
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I’m happy to see in my news feeds an uptick in Montessori-related activity. Here is my site’s page devoted to Montessori materials and backgrounders:
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