The MIT Free Expression Working Group was appointed by President Rafael Reif to review MIT’s free expression policies in response to the Abbot cancellation. John Chisholm‘s updating letter to the Working Group is published here with permission of the author. March 30, 2022 Dear Penny, Phil, Annalisa, Steve, and other members and partners of the […]
The third episode in my Open College with Dr. Stephen Hicks podcast series. Audio links: iTunes. Soundcloud. Stitcher. YouTube. Topics and times: Conceptual clarification: “conservative,” “revolutionary,” “liberal” // Donald Trump versus Charles Koch // Robert Bork, Irving Kristol, Russell Kirk, Pat Buchanan, and Alexander Solzhenitsyn // Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek, and Ayn Rand // Why
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My “The Deep Theory behind Stifling Speech” is now republished at Britain’s Church and State site: “The point is not that poverty and injuries are not real and serious issues to grapple with. The point is that the same tactics are at work in the Trigger strategy — the explicit use of weakness, trauma, victimhood
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First in a series tracking Donald Trump’s presidency and its anti-free-market policies. 1. Pence and Trump explicitly criticize free markets. The New York Times. 2. Direct dealing with an individual company: Carrier will not move. The Fiscal Times. 3. Close up parts of the Internet. “We’re losing a lot of people because of the Internet,”
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I will be participating in the 2nd International Conference on CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance, Building New Bridges Between Business & Society, to be held in Nanjing, P.R., China, from July 29 to 31 and hosted by the Nanjing University of Finance and Economics. My contributions to the conference will be two talks. One will
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[Courtesy of the translator, W. H. F. Altman, here is the text of Martin Heidegger’s speech, delivered on the occasion of a 25th anniversary reunion in Konstanz, May 26-27, 1934.] Martin Heidegger, The Reunion Speech Twenty-five Years after Our Graduation, Reunion in Konstanz on May 26-27, 1934 Dear classmates! Our reunion—after twenty-five years and more—might
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An important editorial in The Washington Times about Elena Kagan, currently Solicitor General and nominee to the Supreme Court. (Thanks to Bob M. for the link.) The article contains a classic false alternative: “Ms. Kagan’s First Amendment work repeatedly promotes the idea that speech rights are granted by government rather than inherent in the God-given
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A lovely picture of our trophy (click the image to enlarge), awarded at the Atlas Economic Research Foundation’s Freedom Dinner and Templeton Award Conference 2009 in Washington, DC. As a bonus, Alan Charles Kors — the great scholar of the Enlightenment and tireless champion of freedom of speech — gave the keynote address. Here is
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Christopher Hitchens has died. Here is a brief profile at Vanity Fair. Here his is at his best in this rousing, witty, and impassioned defense of free speech:
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An analogy of books to money. As an exercise of imagination, let us suppose that the following were a true description of our publishing industry: * Only the government may print books.* The government decides how many books may be in circulation at any given time.* The government determines the initial price at which books
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