[Re-posted from TRI.] A protester was shot at the University of Washington during a clash between rival factions — one faction physically blocking an audience from hearing a speech, the other faction seeking to hear a rabble-rousing orator. The orator was Milo Yiannopoulos, a leading spokesman for the alt-right movement, a revitalized and muscularized version of nationalist […]
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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
On the *moral* benefits of international trade: Skwire, Marty, and Hicks pieces Read More »
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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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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“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
On January 28, I’ll be giving a one-hour talk on “Postmodernism and the Verdict of History,” followed by a question period. Thanks to Max Oblasky for the invitation and organizing the event.
Talk at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign coming up Read More »
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.
Daniel Dennett on the postmodernists Read More »
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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