I’ll be giving an invited talk at the 25th anniversary of the Liberty Forum, the largest liberty-oriented conference in Latin America. The conference is to be held in Porto Alegre, Brazil on April 16 and 17. The overall theme of the conference program is 2037: What Brazil will be yours? I’ll be speaking on Education: […]
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Tibor Machan is professor of philosophy at Chapman University in California. He was born in Communist Hungary, smuggled out as a teenager, and came to the United States, where he earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara. A prolific writer, he has published over forty books and scores of essays. A recent
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Entrepreneurial Resilience in New Orleans My full interview with Jay Lapeyre is now posted at the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship’s site. Lapeyre is the CEO of The Laitram Corporation. I met with him in New Orleans to discuss natural disasters and corrupt politics, leadership, and the state of American manufacturing in our global economy.
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Four breakthrough trends that will transform the next generation. An energizing talk by Peter Diamondis, founder of the X Prize Foundation and head of Singularity University: computing power and access to it, robotics, artificial life, and personal space travel. Plus how to leverage the unbelievable amounts of untapped human potential out there. (Thanks to R.L.
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From Wired magazine’s profile of Reid Hoffman. I like this section where Hoffman says that each one of us needs to “think about our lives as entrepreneurs, using this playbook as a way five years from now to be in more control of my life, create more value in myself and the world around me,
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At Amazon’s Kindle books section, my Explaining Postmodernism holds two of the top six places for books on postmodernism. The first edition is now first, and the expanded edition is now sixth. [Update March 6: Now 1st and 4th.] They are neck-and-neck with The Routledge Companion to Postmodernism and The Cambridge Companion to Postmodernism, two
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From Peter Gay’s brief biography, about the terrible brevity of life in Mozart’s time. Wolfgang Mozart “was born in Salzburg on January 27, 1756, the seventh and last child of Leopold and Anna Maria Mozart. Of his siblings, five died in infancy, and only one sister, four years his elder, survived … . This appalling
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Last semester in my Philosophical Foundations of Education course, I worked closely with Marsha Familaro Enright to use Socratic education. As a result of that experiment, I’ve started a Socratic Seminars page with resources. Here are Marsha Enright, Darian George, and Jason Ware in a three-minute conversation about the aspirations of Socratic Seminars.
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