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Timothy Sandefur on political versus market entrepreneurs — transcript

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Interview conducted at Rockford University by Stephen Hicks and sponsored by the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship. Part I Hicks: I am Stephen Hicks; executive director for Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship at Rockford University and our guest today is Timothy Sandefur. Mr. Sandefur is senior staff attorney with the Pacific Legal Foundation based Sacramento, […]

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Fredric Jameson in Explaining Postmodernism

Leave a Comment / Philosophy / Stephen Hicks

The neo-Marxist postmodernist Fredric Jameson claimed: “Everything is ‘in the last analysis’ political.” For more on the context Jameson’s claim and its implications for politicized postmodernism, see p. 93 of my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism from Rousseau to Foucault. Information about other editions and translations is available at this dedicated page.

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“On the Proofs of God’s Existence” republished [Church and State]

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My “On the Proofs of God’s Existence” is now republished at Britain’s Church and State site: “The Design Argument has some logical force and must be taken seriously. At the same time, is the best of a bad lot of arguments that attempt to prove the existence of God … Read more here. [Related: “Defending

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The Ern Malley Poetry Hoax

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Revisiting a good joke on pretentious literary modernism: “In a single rollicking afternoon McAuley and Stewart cooked up the collected works of Ernest Lalor Malley. Imitating the modern poets they most despised (‘not Max Harris in particular, but the whole literary fashion as we knew it from the works of Dylan Thomas, Henry Treece, and

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Witold Pilecki at Auschwitz

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An officer in the Polish underground voluntarily went to Auschwitz. “In September 1940, [Witold] Pilecki didn’t know exactly what was going on in Auschwitz, but he knew someone had to find out. He would spend two and a half years in the prison camp, smuggling out word of the methods of execution and interrogation. He

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Humor — Religion and the afterlife

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A man arrives at the gates of heaven. St. Peter asks, “Religion?” The man says, “Methodist.” St. Peter looks down his list, and says, “Go to room twenty-eight, but be very quiet as you pass room eight.” Another man arrives at the gates of heaven. “Religion?” “Baptist.” “Go to room eighteen, but be very quiet

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John Passmore in Explaining Postmodernism — on Kant’s significance

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In 1985, the historian of philosophy John Passmore claimed: “The Kantian revival is so widespread as scarcely to lend itself to illustration.” (p. 87) For more on the implications of Passmore’s strong claim and its implications for postmodernism, see p. 87 of my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism from Rousseau to Foucault. Information about other editions and translations

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