Seven items, First, in 1776, in the first draft of the Declaration of Independence: “He [the King of England] has waged a cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in […]
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In this week of the Atlas Intellectualls course on Slavery we cover Frederick Douglass’s “To My Old Master.” Douglass had escaped slavery and become a leader of the abolitionist movement by the time he wrote this 1848 public letter to Thomas Auld—on the anniversary of his escape. Douglass describes his experiences as a slave, his
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América Latina debe abandonar su victimismo y abrirse al mundo Por Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D. Hicks señala que una de las cosas que más lo ha sorprendido es el cinismo y victimismo de los intelectuales y de los latinoamericanos en general, y que el primer paso para resolver nuestros problemas sería asumir la responsabilidad
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Last year, philosopher Marc Champagne published the first scholarly work on Jordan Peterson’s overall worldview. I read the book in manuscript and contributed a blurb for it: “Philosopher Marc Champagne’s analytic skills are impressively on display as he presents and variously dissects, agrees with, and critiques Jordan Peterson’s hugely ambitious project to integrate modern science with
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At the Headway Channel: A conversation with Professor Stephen Hicks on Postmodernism. Conducted by Brian Berneker.
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In this week of the Atlas Intellectuals course on Slavery we cover the great William Wilberforce on the Abolition of Slave Trade. Wilberforce (1759-1833) was a British statesman, Anglican, and the leading force behind the 1807 abolition of the slave trade and the 1833 abolition of slavery in Great Britain. “The Slave Trade is the
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“Structural” is a technical term in this literature, and when claimants of “structural racism” and “critical race theory” use it be aware that they are not allies of the anti-racism of the Martin Luther King judge-individuals-by-the-content-of-their-character variety. What they mean by racism is something profoundly different. Three quotations on what they mean by structural: From
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