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February 21, 2022
Milwaukee Art Museum — put it on your travel list
The structure overlooking Lake Michigan is magnificent. Paired here with a painting from the museum’s collection—another love-of-light-and-space work.
Most stuff is getting cheaper: Cost of goods measured in labor time needed to buy
How long does one need to work, on average, to afford a given thing? Measuring the (mostly) falling costs of various goods across time.
February 20, 2022
Anti-body Idealism
Plato’s Idealism: “If we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself … no pure knowledge is possible in the company of the body … so long as we are alive, we shall continue closest to knowledge if …
February 19, 2022
Education Theory 9: Pragmatism and John Dewey
15-lecture series by Professor Stephen R.C. Hicks, Rockford University. Part Nine: Pragmatism and Education. What did the great Pragmatist philosophers, and John Dewey in particular, believe and how they apply it to education? Previous lectures in the series: Part One: Introduction: What is the purpose of education, and what is philosophy’s relevance? Part Two: Reality: …
On self-dissolution under the Nazis — a student’s memoir
Excerpt from Charles Taylor on Sebastian Haffner’s memoir Defying Hitler, including his experience as a law student early in the National Socialist regime. If by now the incidents that follow are familiar—the intimidation, the erosion of press freedom, violence in the streets, people fleeing or attempting to flee—it’s their novelty to Haffner that carries the …
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February 18, 2022
Churn in top 10 of Fortune 500 companies
I’m speaking to students today at a high school in Wisconsin, and using this chart comparing the top ten in year 2000 with the top ten in 2020. Also this from professor Steven Rogers; My theme for the students is: You are the entrepreneur of your life. That’s good news — let the adventure begin. …
Argentina and Brazil lecture tour, April 2022
More information forthcoming, but for my friends in South America here is the rough itinerary: São Paulo, April 7-9 Porto Alegre: April 10-12 Buenos Aires: April 13-17 Related: the pages with my writings translated into Portuguese and into Spanish.
February 17, 2022
Question: Who is your favorite artist? | Philosophy for Real Life (20 of 22) | Stephen Hicks
Two-minute answers to key questions about philosophy, politics, art, and the meaning of life. “Postmodernism”. My favorite artist? I cheat and name five. Filmed in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The full series is published at the CEE Video Channel. Description: At some point in our lives, we each ask ourselves the big questions. How we respond …
February 16, 2022
Tomorrow: Dr. Stephen Hicks on The Invisibility of Entrepreneurism: Why Free-Market Policies So Often Lose
FEBRUARY 17TH WITH STEPHEN HICKS REGISTER TODAY The Wisconsin Forum 2021-2022 Season continues on Thursday, February 17, 2022, with Dr. Stephen Hicks, “The Invisibility of Entrepreneurism: Why Free-Market Polices So Often Lose.” “The economic, political, and historical evidence for the superiority of free societies is substantial — yet so many are suspicious or outright hostile, …
Trucker spokesman BJ Dichter on what they do and don’t want
Clear and concise statement by B.J. Dichter, one of the organizers and spokesmen, of what the trucker protesters want. Hosted on JBP’s channel.
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