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(Policy of Truth) CFP: “Rethinking College”
Reason Papers (now edited by Shawn Klein, Arizona State University) has just issued a Call for Papers on the topic, “Rethinking College.” Here’s the blurb: For years, we have heard about the coming bursting of the higher education bubble. Cancellation of college debt is an active political issue. Free speech on campus (or lack thereof)…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on “The Useful Libertarian Idiocy of the Great Barrington Declaration” by wfoddis
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Here is another way to look at it. COVID-19 is more deadly than the flu at all age levels above 30. An independent researcher, Marc Bevand, did this analysis, which can be found here: https://github.com/mbevand/covid19-age-st…
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(Jesse Walker, Author at Reason.com) Neutron Gun Reloaded
Gerry Reith’s raw, paranoid, apocalyptic fables were shot through with distrust for just about every institution around.
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( Comments for Radical Classical Liberals ) Comment on Private “censorship” by Private “censorship” – Rational Review News Digest
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( Comments for Radical Classical Liberals ) Comment on Censorship, Free Speech, Social Media, and The First Amendment by Private “censorship” | Radical Classical Liberals
[…] Many people think of censorship more capaciously than I do. (See Andrew Jason Cohen’s recent post.) Let us bracket the conceptual point and move forward. Consider what private parties do when they […]
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(Radical Classical Liberals) Private “censorship”
Here’s a thought experiment about what some people call censorship. Let’s imagine we all live in a community called Mayberry. This is a pre-internet time, and imagine too that very few of us have a TV or a radio. The main media outlet in our town is the Mayberry Gazette. Some community leaders worry our…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on “The Useful Libertarian Idiocy of the Great Barrington Declaration” by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Raymond Raad. (Responding to Ray Raad) I only have time right now to deal with the first (less fundamental) part of your comment. I had said that the concept of rights has to be sensitive to risk-thresholds, which you take to be obvious. So…
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