A striking line from German-American historian Walter Laqueur on early 20th-century transformation of the arts: “The painters were fascinated by ugliness; the composers threw harmony overboard, gradually moving towards dissonance; the poets and playwrights were preoccupied with the madness of great cities, parenticide and rats emerging from rotting corpses.” (Laqueur, Walter. Weimar: A Cultural History, […]
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1. Batista first came to power in Cuba by being elected to office. He ran as head of the Democratic Socialist party, a coalition supported also by the Cuban Communist Party. The image is of an election poster. (History lesson: Beware of democratic socialists. They’re often wolves in sheep’s clothing.) 2. The US-embargo means there
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My 20-minute talk for the City of Ideas festival in Puebla, Mexico is online here. In English with Spanish subtitles. I use four examples — two good and two awful — from the history of medicine to frame my recommendations for transforming education.
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I’m in Rapid City, South Dakota today, speaking at 2 p.m. local time on “Democratic Socialism for Beginners.” The full FreedomFest lineup of speakers and sessions is here.
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Políticas Violentas – La Lección de la Filosofía Marxista Por Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D. Tanta brutalidad ha surgido de activistas inspirados en Marx. Podríamos pensar que es solo un subproducto accidental de una teoría bien intencionada. ¿O es realmente una consecuencia necesaria e intencional de sus principios? Traducido al Español por Fermin Elizalde, 2020.
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In response to a question about some forms of feminism — including Andrea Dworkin’s and Catharine MacKinnon’s — and their connections to postmodernism and censorship. Why Radical Feminists Censor Porn. Four-minutes: Related: This long-form response to two sets of critics of Explaining Postmodernism:
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Excerpt from my interview with The Reason We Learn.
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In this unit of the Atlas Intellectuals course on Slavery: Was slavery economically negative, not only for the slaves but the slaveowners and/or slave societies in general? Two broad positions have dominated the history of economic thought with respect to chattel slavery. A Fine coverage in Jeffrey Hummel on Slavery as Economic “Deadweight Loss”. Jeffrey
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