A new episode of my podcast series, produced by Possibly Correct out of Toronto. Audio: iTunes Stitcher YouTube Topics: Envy-charge against socialism // Envy-charge against liberal capitalism // Rousseau and Rawls on how to combat envy // So: Is envy worse or better in a free society? // Envy as a worse anti-social problem in earlier societies // […]
Is Envy Worse in a Free Society? [Open College series] Read More »
My essay [pdf] was first published in 2009 in Journal of Private Enterprise. Here is the 21-minute audio edition in MP3 format or at YouTube. It’s also available at Amazon, and in Serbo-Croatian, Spanish [PDF] and Portuguese translations: [PDF] or [HTML]. Related: All of my audio editions, including my Open College podcast series.
Audio edition of “What Business Ethics Can Learn from Entrepreneurship” Read More »
“Ayn Rand” is my 300-word biographical entry for the Directory, published out of Germany’s Paderborn University. The biography is followed by a concise selection of primary and secondary sources on Rand and Objectivism.
Biographical entry on Ayn Rand for Women Philosophers Directory Read More »
Note the similarity: * The born-entitled-snob mentality says: My daddy’s a zillionaire, so I am special and you are dirt. * The resentful-anti-privilege mentality says: Your daddy’s a zillionaire, so you are repulsive and I hate you. The same premise is at work in both mentalities: One’s status is determined by one’s daddy’s money. Both
Snobs and “privilege” — a quick comparison Read More »
A new episode of my podcast series, produced by Possibly Correct out of Toronto. Audio link: iTunes Stitcher YouTube Topics: Historical overview of the Catastrophe // Lessons to learn // Standard narrative and my opinion of it // Journalism and the Bhopal case // Questions and analysis Transcription: Forthcoming. Related: Blamestorming and Environmental Problems (Part I)
Bhopal’s Chemical Disaster—Who Really Cares About the Environment [Open College series] Read More »
Ethics (PHIL 122) Logic (PHIL 221) Business and Economic Ethics (PHIL 325)
Syllabi for my courses, Spring 2019 Read More »
I’m happy to announce that, coincidentally with my upcoming Adventures in Postmodernism tour downunder, an Australia and New Zealand edition of my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault. Thanks to Anthony Cappello and Connor Court Publishing for making it happen. For other editions and translations, please see the Explaining Postmodernism page.
Australian edition of *Explaining Postmodernism* Read More »
Sometimes it seems a mystery why the postmodern Left seems to be so fascist in practice — while billing itself as anti-fascist. Consider this quotation from a leading activist of the 1920s. I’ll reveal his name afterwards: “Everything I have said and done in these last years is relativism by intuition. If relativism signifies contempt
Why the pomo left seems … well … so fascist Read More »