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On the moral benefits of international trade: Skwire, Marty, and Hicks pieces

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FEE this month reprints Sarah Skwire’s good piece from 2017: “The Moral and Spiritual Blessings of Trade Among All Nations”: “Free trade doesn’t just make us better off. It makes us better people.” At PanAm Post this month, Maria Marty takes up the underlying collectivist premises of many anti-free-trade arguments: “La excusa colectivista para limitar […]

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Peggy Noonan on Jordan Peterson’s morality

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In The Wall Street Journal, she asks: “Who’s Afraid of Jordan Peterson?” “What could a grown-up, seemingly stable professor (former associate professor of psychology at Harvard, full professor for 20 years at the University of Toronto) stand for that would make a journalist want to annihilate him on live TV—or, failing that, to diminish him

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Thomas Nipperdey in Explaining Postmodernism

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Historian Thomas Nipperdey on one reason why German philosophy came to prominence in American intellectual life: “Until 1830 it was the general rule that talented and curious young minds gravitated to Paris; but from then on they came, in ever-increasing numbers (American students, for example) to Germany, to Berlin.” For more on the meaning and implications

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Build your bridge

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“No one can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life. There may be countless trails and bridges and demigods who would gladly carry you across; but only at the price of pawning and forgoing yourself. There is one path in the world that none can walk

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Talk at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign coming up

Daniel Dennett on the postmodernists

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I think what the postmodernists did was truly evil. They are responsible for the intellectual fad that made it respectable to be cynical about truth and facts. You’d have people going around saying: “Well, you’re part of that crowd who still believe in facts.” Source.

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den Ouden reviews Nietzsche and the Nazis

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Marco den Ouden’s in-depth book review: Nietzsche and the Nazis by Stephen R.C. Hicks “Hicks is driven by a nagging question — how could Nazism happen? Here was one of the most civilized countries in the world, sinking into a morass of hatred, violence and destruction. Why? “The answer is philosophy. ‘Not economics, not psychology,

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Christopher Janaway in Explaining Postmodernism

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Philosopher Christopher Janaway said: “One feature uniting many kinds of recent philosophy is an increasing recognition that we are working within the legacy of Kant”. For more on the meaning and implications of Janaway’s remark, see p. 79 of my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism from Rousseau to Foucault. Information about other editions and translations is available at this

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