Myron Magnet: The Founders at Home
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Myron Magnet, prizewinning author of Clarence Thomas and the Lost Constitution and The Founders at Home: The Building of America, 1735-1817, was the editor of City Journal from 1994 through 2006 and is now its editor-at-large. A longtime member of the board of editors of Fortune magazine, Magnet has written about a wide variety of topics, from American society and social policy, economics, and corporate management to intellectual history, literature, architecture, and the American Founding.
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Freedom Center Talks: Randall Curren – “Children of the Broken Heartlands: Rural Isolation and the Geography of Opportunity.”
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Randall Curren is Professor and Chair of Philosophy and Professor of Education (secondary) at the University of Rochester (New York), and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues (JCCV) at the University of Birmingham (England).
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Freedom Center Talks: Alexandra Oprea – “Defending Education: A Democratic Role for Courts in Education Policy”
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Alexandra Oprea is a political philosopher with a specialization in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics (PPE). She is a lecturer at the Australian National University. Her research interests include education policy, collective decision-making, institutional design, and the history of political thought.
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FC Talks: Fredrik DeBoer on the Cult of Smart
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Fredrik DeBoer is a writer and academic with a PhD from Purdue University. His writing has appeared in such places as The New York Times, Harper’s, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Politico, Playboy, New Republic, Foreign Policy, n+1, and Jacobin. You can find his first book, The Cult of Smart below:
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Freedom Center Talks: Carlo Cordasco on Flexibility
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Dr. Cordsci is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Centre for Regional Economic and Enterprise Development (CREED), and an Affiliate Scholar at the Classical Liberal Institute at the New York University School of Law. Carlo joined Sheffield University Management School in May 2019 after completing his PhD at the Department of Politics, University of Sheffield.
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Freedom Center Talks: C. Thi Nguyen Games and Gamification
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On this episode of the Freedom Center Today he talks about games, gamification, and the danger of assigning numeric scores as we try to deal with thorny social problems.
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Freedom Center People: Chad Van Schoelandt
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Chad Van Shoelandt earned his PhD at the University of Arizona, where he was involved with the Freedom Center. He is presently a professor of philosophy at Tulane University in New Orleans.
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Freedom Center Talks: Tony Gill on Tipping
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Tony Gill earned his PhD at UCLA, and is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington, adjunct professor of Sociology at the UW, and a Distinguished Senior Fellow at Baylor University’s Institute for Studies of Religion. Professor Gill specializes in political economy and religion & politics, with an emphasis on church-state relations, religious liberty, and religious economies. Additionally, he also works on tipping.
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Freedom Center Talks: Kathryn Norlock-Struggles are Perpetual
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Kathryn Norlock is the inaugural Kenneth Mark Drain Endowed Chair in Ethics, Full Professor the Department of Philosophy, an affiliated faculty member in Sustainability Studies, and an associated faculty member in Gender and Women's Studies at Trent University.
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Roger Kreuz on Irony
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Dr. Roger Kreuz is Associate Dean and Director of Graduate Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Psychology at the University of Memphis. He is the coauthor of Becoming Fluent: How Cognitive Science Can Help Adults Learn a Foreign Language, Getting Through: The Pleasures and Perils of Cross-Cultural Communication, and Changing Minds: How Aging Affects Language and How Language Affects Aging.
info_outlineDr. Roger Kreuz is Associate Dean and Director of Graduate Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Psychology at the University of Memphis. He is the coauthor of Becoming Fluent: How Cognitive Science Can Help Adults Learn a Foreign Language, Getting Through: The Pleasures and Perils of Cross-Cultural Communication, and Changing Minds: How Aging Affects Language and How Language Affects Aging.
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