“University should teach you to make nuanced judgments”

Reposting for the new academic year: “University should teach you to make nuanced judgments. If you think there are only your views, and everyone else is Hitler, that’s a problem with you. You’re not an educated mind yet.” From my interview in Toronto’s Metro Canada newspaper’s “Defining Free Speech on Campus,” (page 9) as one […]

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The schedule-math of being a university student

How much time should one dedicate to one’s university schedule? Being a university student is in part preparation for a career. So a helpful method is to schedule yourself as a serious person with a career does. On average professionals work 45 hours a week. (Early-stage professionals such as doctors, lawyers, teachers, and entrepreneurs typically

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New printing of *Explaining Postmodernism* — the fifteenth

A new printing of the expanded edition was published this month in a snazzy hardcover. Its theme: “The failure of epistemology made postmodernism possible. The failure of socialism made postmodernism necessary.” This is the fifteenth printing since its first publication in 2004. Samples from the scholarly reviewers of the first edition: “By the end of Explaining

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Discussion with Jordan Peterson on August 17 — update

On August 17 at 1 p.m. Eastern, Professor Peterson will host a discussion with me on the culture wars, postmodernism and its manifestations in university politicization, the pronoun mandates, and political correctness. The discussion will be recorded and later released on social media. Here are some earlier Peterson-Hicks intersections: (Here’s the mentioned Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism

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