That decade spans my high school and undergraduate education. I list the following twelve books because they provoked strong intellectual or aesthetic engagement and, in some cases, long-term agreement. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics James Herriot, All Creatures Great and Small Alistair MacLean, The Guns of Navarone Ludwig von Mises, Socialism Friedrich Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals L.M. […]
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A Russian translation of my “The Battle for the Soul of the University is Raging” has been published by a source unknown to me. “The protesters and disrupters may be angry, but they are adults who know what they are doing. ‘Cry-bullies’ is half-right, as the tears are a tactic.” Read more here in English, Hebrew,
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My Savvy Street article, “The Battle for the Soul of the University is Raging,” was translated into Hebrew by Shahar Shlush and published here. “The protesters and disrupters may be angry, but they are adults who know what they are doing. ‘Cry-bullies’ is half-right, as the tears are a tactic.”
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I’m happy to announce that this summer I will be visiting professor at the University of Kasimir the Great. I’ll be teaching philosophy and philosophy of education, as well as giving some public talks on philosophical topics. Thanks very much especially to Professor Piotr Kostyło for enabling my visit. At right is an image of
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At the TRAC 2014 conference in Ventura, California (“The Aesthetics of 21st Century”), I participated in a panel discussion on talks presented by philosopher Roger Scruton and artist Odd Nerdrum. Scruton spoke of Beauty and Nerdrum spoke of Kitsch. My comments in response run for 18 minutes, beginning at the 40:16 mark, following a quick
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My “How to Tame Religious Terrorists” is now republished at Britain’s Church and State site: “Any fight is triggered by short-term, local disagreements. But long-term, generalized conflicts are always about abstract principles in collision. As with neo-Nazis, Communist revolutionaries, violent environmentalists, bomb-the-government anarchists and others – our conflicts with them are intellectual in origin. “Terrorism
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Some feminists (and pretty much everyone else, by the way) are sensitive to old-fashioned sexism. We believe that women are and can be as competent as men. But as a corrective to the historical record and the remaining elements of sexism, we celebrate stories of accomplished women and highlight that yes, indeed, a woman did
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From philosopher Sidney Hook’s autobiographical Out of Step, on his authoritarian schooling in early 20th-century New York: “Although the public schools were religiously attended (children feared the wrath of their parents much more than the threats of the truant officer), the classroom experience was far more enjoyable. First of all, the discipline was exacting. Our
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