Two-minute answers to key questions about philosophy, politics, art, and the meaning of life. Why does integrity matter, and how are hypocrisy and integrity are opposites? 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. […]

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

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:

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,