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November 5, 2023
Love and Hate in Uncertain Times [Stephen Hicks lecture in Belgrade, Serbia]
How did the ideas of liberty prevail in the modern world? What stands behind humanity’s enormous progress in very recent centuries? Stephen Hicks answered these questions at an international conference hosted by ARCE. Related: Professor Hicks’s book on the anti-Enlightenment origins of Postmodernism, Wokism, and Cancel Culture.
November 2, 2023
In class: Reason, according to Socrates
At the beginning of Crito, Socrates is in prison awaiting execution, having been found guilty of impiety and corrupting the youth of Athens. His good friend Crito arrives, having worked out an escape opportunity for Socrates. Crito rushes through a few reasons why Socrates should escape immediately. Socrates then suggests that the issue is more …
November 1, 2023
Rembrandt van Rijn | “Self Portrait” (1629) [Newberry on Great Art series]
An Artist’s View: Michael Newberry on Key Works of Art in History Michael Newberry, is an avant-garde figurative painter, writer and teacher promoting evolutionary flourishing through his work. He does this through advances in color theory, body language, symbolism, and composition. Michael is the author of two books released in 2021: Evolution Through Art and Newberry …
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October 28, 2023
Allegory of the Cave | The Republic | Plato | Philosophers, Explained by Stephen Hicks
Who are the great philosophers, and what makes them great? Episodes: The full playlist. Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, USA, and has had visiting positions at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., the University of Kasimir the Great in Poland, Oxford University’s Harris Manchester College in England, and Jagiellonian …
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October 25, 2023
Piaget and Locke on play and creativity
This quotation from twentieth-century education theorist Jean Piaget — “Play is the answer to how anything new comes about” — reminds me of a passage from seventeenth-century philosopher John Locke’s Some Thoughts concerning Education. “Great care is to be taken, that [education] be never made as a business to him, nor he look on it …
October 23, 2023
Debate in London, November 2
I will be in London, England, next week to do a live, studio debate with Professor James Orr: I will argue for Liberalism and Professor Orr will argue for Conservatism. James Orr is on the Faculty of Divinity at Cambridge University (UK). He also headed up the National Conservatism conference held in Westminster, London, May …
October 21, 2023
What careers do campus activists pursue?
How academic theory becomes university classroom becomes schooling becomes culture: “What do these hateful ideologues do after obtaining their diplomas? To find out, we searched for the career histories of a sample of 300 former campus radicals identified by Canary Mission. More than a quarter of them are in higher education, either as graduate instructors …
October 20, 2023
Bible word count: “Fear,” “Obey,” “Love,” etc.
How many times do key normative words appear in the King James version of the Bible? The above list is only partial and a discussion starter. Sample word counts via King James Bible Online: Source: https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/...
October 18, 2023
Rembrandt van Rijn | “Anatomy Lesson” (1632) [Newberry on Great Art series]
An Artist’s View: Michael Newberry on Key Works of Art in History Michael Newberry, is an avant-garde figurative painter, writer and teacher promoting evolutionary flourishing through his work. He does this through advances in color theory, body language, symbolism, and composition. Michael is the author of two books released in 2021: Evolution Through Art and Newberry …
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Four Continents, Four Debates
I had a happy realization that I’ve done four live public debates and each was on a different continent. Australia (Brisbane) 2020: Topic: Is Postmodernism Right-Wing or Left-Wing? Europe (Belgrade) 2023: Topic: Open or Closed Objectivism? North America (New York) 2019: Do Free Societies Need Postmodernism? South America (Buenos Aires) 2018: Morality of Capitalism vs. …
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