Jennifer Burns
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Jennifer Burns is an American historian, the Edgar E.
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6 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
- Born: 1975 (opens wiqqi.app)
- Position: Edgar E. Robinson Professor in United States History, Stanford University; research fellow, Hoover Institution (opens wiqqi.app)
- Before: Assistant professor of history, University of Virginia, from 2007 to 2012 (opens wiqqi.app)
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2 channels on ppll (opens ppll.app)
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20 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Milton Friedman won debates on cheerfulness and confidence rather than on argument, and Ayn Rand lost them because disagreement made her angry. (opens korrents.com)
“Milton Friedman, he also does tend to have friends who agree with him, yet he's always willing to debate his opponents, and he's willing to do so with a smile on his face. He's a happy warrior, and he actually will win…”
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Ayn Rand believed she was doing rational philosophy, but the work that actually made her powerful was mythopoetic and psychological. (opens korrents.com)
“So, she thought of herself as rational. She thought of rationality as what she was doing, but she was actually doing a kind of mythopoetic psychological work as well.”
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Ayn Rand keeps returning to relevance in a way Milton Friedman does not, because she reached a universal human longing for independence and self-creation. (opens korrents.com)
“So, I think she comes back in to relevancy in a different way than Friedman does, because I think in some ways she's tapped into a more universal human longing for independence and autonomy and self-creation and…”
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Milton Friedman won debates on cheerfulness and confidence rather than on argument, and Ayn Rand lost them because disagreement made her angry. (opens korrents.com)
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1 recommendation on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945 (opens rcmnd.app)
“It is a rare work of history that remains the authoritative treatment of its subject nearly thirty years after publication, cited by numerous contemporary historians for its content and scholarship rather than as an…”
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The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945 (opens rcmnd.app)