Tag: education

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Part 2 of 5 (Part 1 here)

Transcript by Hyacinth Bouquet. The following is a transcript of the second part of Marian Van Court and Arthur Jensen’s conversation, which can be heard here, or using the player below.

Topics include:

IQ and common sense

Social intelligence as g + extraversion, or g + social experience (more…)

Arthur Jensen

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Part 1 of 5 (Part 2 here)

Marian Van Court recorded four-and-a-half hours of interviews with Arthur Jensen (1923–2012), who was then a Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of California at Berkeley, in 1986. Jensen was one of the great pioneers in the science of human biological diversity. The following is a transcript of the first part of their conversation, which can be heard here, or using the player below. The other parts can be heard here: Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 (more…)

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English original here

K otázkám obvykle probíraným na stránkách The Occidental Quarterly jsem dospěl až dosti pozdě. V mládí jsem se totiž o politiku nezajímal, za což jsem při pohledu zpět vděčný. Stejně jako většina Američanů jsem měl za to, že „politika“ znamená volební klání takřka k nerozeznání podobných stran.

Během dospívání jsem však narazil na Souostroví Gulag a plně si uvědomil, o jak vysoké sázky se v politice hraje. (more…)

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Greg Johnson is teaching a five-week course on Plato’s Gorgias on Counter-Currents Radio, which will continue on three Saturdays later this month (July 15, 22, and 29). The second lecture, which dealt with Socrates’ discussion with Polus from 461b to 481b, can be heard below. A visual aid that accompanies the lecture is here.

The theme of the course is “Might vs. Right.” Dr. Johnson is using Donald J. Zeyl’s translation of the Gorgias published by Hackett as both a separate book and as part of their Plato Complete Works volume. (more…)

Emily Drabinski, President of the American Library Association, 2023-24

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Librarians see themselves on the front lines on what it takes to bring revolution to the US. You need soldiers in the revolution so they are teaching kids to be little antifa activists who hate their own country and will act as a collective to bring about change. — Dan Kleinman of Safe Libraries, in the New York Post, September 10, 2022 (more…)

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Part 3 of 3 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here)

1. Fichte on the Nature of the State

We began to explore Fichte’s political philosophy in the last installment, as expounded primarily in his 1796 work Foundations of Natural Right. It is a basic principle of Fichte’s philosophy that subjectivity, what he calls the “I,” must bring nature under the control of reason. (more…)

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The man . . . has equipped himself with many things for his journey. — Franz Kafka, “Before the Law”

While I have life and strength I shall never cease from the teaching and practice of philosophy. — Socrates, Plato’s Apology (more…)

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This year, Counter-Currents is raising $300,000. Thus far our grand total is $188,211.94. That puts us at 63% of our goal. We have also received $870 so far toward our matching grant of $3,700 for the translation of Alain de Benoist’s The Populist Moment. Thanks so much to all our donors for their support. Complete information on how you can help appears below. But first, Thomas Steuben explains why your support is so crucial right now. (more…)

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There is an elective affinity — a relationship of reciprocal attraction and mutual reinforcement — between a) John Locke’s argument that a child’s mind initially resembles an “empty cabinet” or a “white paper void of all characters” which can be shaped by controlling the education impressed upon the child’s mind, and b) the origins of a literature specifically written for children in the 1700s in England. (more…)

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Returning guest host Millennial Woes welcomed Aureus Press to the last broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio, and it is now available for download and online listening.

Topics discussed include:

00:01:10 What’s Aureus Press? (website, Telegram, Facebook, Twitter)
00:02:10 Twitter sucks (more…)

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Recently I had a lucky find: the article “Suburban Chicago High School District To Implement Race-Based Grading By 2023” hosted on GOPUSA. It was signal-boosted from an Accuracy In Media piece by John Ransom. (more…)

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David Epstein
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
New York: Riverhead Books, 2019

No Tool is omnicompetent. — Arnold Toynbee

[W]ork that builds bridges between disparate pieces of knowledge is less likely to be funded, less likely to appear in famous journals, more likely to be ignored upon publication, and then more likely in the long run to be a smash hit in the library of human knowledge. — David Epstein (more…)