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Giroux against liberal education [Pope Lecture]

In this invited lecture, Dr. Hicks surveys key educational ideas from pre-modern times, the modern era, and our post-modern times. Ancient education often stressed discipline, obedience and rule following, while modern thinkers such as Galileo, Locke, and Montaigne stressed independent judgment and the power of reason. He then examines a series postmodern (and fellow-traveler) thinkers …

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Giroux against modern education [Pope Lecture]

In this invited lecture, Dr. Hicks surveys key educational ideas from pre-modern times, the modern era, and our post-modern times. Ancient education often stressed discipline, obedience and rule following, while modern thinkers such as Galileo, Locke, and Montaigne stressed independent judgment and the power of reason. He then examines a series postmodern (and fellow-traveler) thinkers …

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What Foucault liked to do with Arab boys — excerpt from Murray’s book

WHAT FOUCAULT LIKED TO DO TO ARAB BOYS. Excerpt from Douglas Murray’s The War on the West (2022): It is always unpleasant—as well as unwise—for thinkers to lambaste each other because of the habits of their personal lives. The personal is not always political and is certainly not always philosophical. Yet in March 2021, a …

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Excellent letter from Steven Pinker on politicizing science and *Science*

Pinker is a professor of psychology at Harvard. His letter is to a board member of the AAAS, which publishes Science, in response to a fundraising letter. Excerpts: My own experience as a scientific communicator confirms that there is enormous distrust of the scientific and academic establishments, because people believe these establishments have been captured …

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Plato & Authoritarian Communalism [Education’s Villains and Heroes course]

In this first session of the online Education’s Villains and Heroes course we will be discussing philosopher Plato’s view on education. To prepare for this session: * Link to register: KAZM. * Reading: excerpts from Plato, The Republic: Excerpt from Book 2 on “The Myth of Gyges.” Excerpt from Book 7 on “The Allegory of the Cave.” Excerpt from Book …

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TODAY: “Ask Me Anything About Philosophy” with Stephen Hicks

Join our Senior Scholar, Dr. Stephen Hicks, on Wednesday, May 4 @ 3:30 PM PT / 6:30 PM ET for a special “Ask Me Anything About Philosophy” event when Dr. Hicks will be answering your questions on philosophy and questions from our 63K Instagram followers. Not yet on Clubhouse? Use this link HERE to get your invitation to the platform, whether you’re …

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Stephen Hicks presents: “Education’s Villains and Heroes,” a new online course

In this eight-session course we will read and discuss eight major philosophers’ views on education: Plato, Locke, Rousseau, Marx, Kant, Dewey, Rand, and Giroux. One can register at Kazm for Education’s Villains and Heroes. Related: Professor Hicks’s 15-lecture free, online course on Philosophy of Education.

Is there a gender gap on abortion?

Our generation’s gender gap on abortion: And recall that a generation ago, the 7-2 Roe v. Wade decision was by an all-male Supreme Court. So a request to the angry-adversarial-feminist types: Let’s leave the gender ad hominem arguments out of the discussion, please.

Why radical feminists censor porn using Postmodern arguments

Four-minute clip from The John Cooper Show:

Stephen Hicks presents: “Education’s Villains and Heroes,” a new online course

In this eight-session course we will read and discuss eight major philosophers’ views on education: Plato, Locke, Rousseau, Marx, Kant, Dewey, Rand, and Giroux. One can register at Kazm for Education’s Villains and Heroes. Topics for our first three sessions: Related: Professor Hicks’s 15-lecture free, online course on Philosophy of Education.