Category Civil Society

May 19 2018

Peter Thiel: College Education is a Disaster


Published on Aug 7, 2017

Peter Andreas Thiel is an American entrepreneur, political activist, and author. He was ranked No. 4 on the Forbes Midas List of 2014, with a net worth of $2.2 billion. He co-founded PayPal. He also was part of Donald Trumps transition team. Charles Alan Murray is an American libertarian conservative political scientist, author, and columnist. His book Losing Ground: American Social Policy 1950–1980 (1984), which discussed the American welfare system, was widely read and discussed, and influenced subsequent government policy. He became well-known for his controversial book The Bell Curve (1994) about IQ. Complete Video quoted under fair use: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VTQ-… —–

 

May 19 2018

2015 Personality Lecture 12: Existentialism: Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard


Published on Feb 24, 2015

Become a site patron: http://bit.ly/1VhFPLb Twitter: https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drjordanpete… Dostoevsky, Nietzsche and Kierkegaard, prophetic thinkers of the late 1800’s, foretold the inevitable rise of nihilism and totalitarianism in the bloody 20th century. Want to support this channel?

 

May 18 2018

Stephen Hicks: Nietzsche Perfectly Forecasts the Postmodernist Left


Published on Aug 1, 2017

Stephen Hicks is a Canadian-American philosopher who teaches at Rockford University, where he also directs the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship. In 2004 he wrote a book named “Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault” which was e.g. recommended by Jordan Peterson for understanding postmodernism (cf. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPojl…)
May 17 2018

Stephen Hicks – Explaining Postmodernism In 2018


Published on Mar 23, 2018

The UBC Free Speech Club had the absolute honour of hosting Dr. Stephen Hicks earlier in March. We sincerely hope you enjoy this lecture as it is the first of many on this channel. Special Thanks Dr. Jordan B. Peterson for connecting us to Dr. Hicks. Dr. Hicks signed a number of extra copies of his book. You can buy your own signed hardcopy here! https://www.amazon.ca/dp/0983258406?m…
May 17 2018

Stephen Hicks: From the Falsification of Marxism to Post-Modernism


Published on Jul 9, 2017

Stephen Ronald Craig Hicks is a Canadian-American philosopher who teaches at Rockford University, where he also directs the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship. In 2004 he wrote a book named “Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault” which was e.g. recommended by Jordan Peterson for understanding postmodernism (cf. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPojl…) Full clip, quoted under fair use: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zhOo…
May 17 2018

Dinesh D’Souza: The Most Cunning Sleight of Hand Ever Performed in American History


Published on Aug 23, 2017

Dinesh Joseph D’Souza (born April 25, 1961) is an Indian American political commentator, author and filmmaker. From 2010 to 2012, he was president of The King’s College, a Christian school in New York City. This was part of a talk at Trinity University, invited by the Young America´s Foundation, visit: http://www.yaf.org/ Full video, quoted under fair use: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPTV9…

 

May 17 2018

Helena Cronin: Feminism is Ignorant About Modern Science


Published on Mar 25, 2018

Helena Cronin (born 1942) is a British Darwinian philosopher and rationalist. She is the co-director of the Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science and the Darwin Centre at the London School of Economics. In this clip from 2014, she talks about how feminism ignores modern science when it comes to differences between men and women. Full clip, quoted under fair use: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3G7x…
May 17 2018

Laura Kipnis: Political Correctness is Now Eating the Left Too


Published on Dec 15, 2017

Laura Kipnis (born 1956) is an American cultural critic and essayist. A feminist intellectual, her work focuses on, gender issues and politics, aesthetics and popular culture. She began her career as a video artist, exploring similar themes in the form of video essays. She is professor of media studies at Northwestern University in the Department of Radio-TV-Film, where she teaches filmmaking. In this interview, she talks about her title IX complains and the stifling culture of political correctness on college campus. Full clip, quoted under fair use: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRBX1…
May 16 2018

Jordan Peterson: Why Globalism Fails and Nationalism is Relatable


Published on Jul 27, 2017

Jordan B Peterson (born June 12, 1962) is a Canadian clinical psychologist and professor of psychology at the University of Toronto. This is part of his Biblical Series VIII: The Phenomenology of the Divine and he is talking about globalism and why large systems fail. Full video quoted under fair use: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoQdp…