Kieran Bhattacharya was expelled from the University of Virginia medical school. A journalistic account is here. The university claims his persistent questioning at a panel discussion and his follow-up resistance to the university’s orders violated “the school’s professionalism standards.” Professionalism cuts both ways at a university — both for students and for faculty/administrators — but […]

El populismo triunfa donde falla la educación Por Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D. Para Hicks, estas escuelas de pensamiento están en constante conflicto. Por un lado, se encuentran los ídolos del sistema educativo de América Latina: Rousseau, Marx, Hegel, Heidegger, Foucault, Sartre, Kant, Nietzsche y Derrida. Por el otro, tenemos a Bacon, Locke, Newton, Smith,

Nietzsche is often reductionist, so this aspirational mind-body integration claim is striking: “It is probable that in such perfectly well-constituted men, enjoyments of a wholly sensual nature are ultimately transfigured into allegorical reveries of the highest intellectuality; they experience in themselves a kind of deification of the body” The Will to Power, 1051

Academic article of the week, summarized: “I smell bad. Capitalism wants to fix my body odor. Oppression!” https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/ethicsenviro.24.1.02

Gallup poll data: So: What happened in 2013? Note that 2013 is three years before Donald Trump became president. Note that 2013 is four years before Jordan Peterson became famous. Questions: Does it coincide with editorial-board changes at major media outlets, e.g., The New York Times and The Washington Post, etc.? Does it coincide with