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Author Bryan Van Norden

Bryan Van Norden

Bryan Van Norden

Bryan W. Van Norden is a leading expert on Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism. He is the author, editor, or translator of nine books on Chinese and comparative philosophy, including Introduction to Classical Chinese Philosophy (2011), Readings in Later Chinese Philosophy: Han to the 20th Century (2014, with Justin Tiwald), Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy (2nd ed., 2005, with P.J. Ivanhoe), and most recently Taking Back Philosophy: A Multicultural Manifesto (2017). Van Norden lives in Singapore, where he is currently Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho Temple Professor at Yale-NUS College. He is also Chair Professor in Philosophy in the School of Philosophy at Wuhan University (PRC) and James Monroe Taylor Chair in Philosophy at Vassar College (USA). A recipient of Fulbright, National Endowment for the Humanities, and Mellon fellowships, Van Norden has been honored as one of The Best 300 Professors in the US by The Princeton Review. His hobbies are poker (he has played in the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas) and video games.

10 Reasons Conservatives Should Vote Against Trump and the Republicans Who Support Him in 2018 and 2020

Bryan Van Norden
Politics, Uncategorized
1. Trump and the Republicans in office who support him are fiscally irresponsible. After just a couple of years of Republican control of the White House, Senate, and House of Representatives, the US deficit...

How Did This Nice Conservative Boy Become a Democrat?

Bryan Van Norden
Government, History, News, Politics, Politics & Economics, Thinks
As a young man, I was primed, by both instinct and education, to become a conservative. My late father was chairman of the local Republican Party. I was raised on an intellectual diet of the Bible and the...

Why the Berkeley Riot Was Wrong (and Foolish)

Bryan Van Norden
Academia, Politics & Economics
The University of California at Berkeley recently cancelled a scheduled talk by leading far-right speaker Milo Yiannopoulos after students rioted. The students were both wrong and foolish. Back in 1970...

Three Simple Ways to Improve Future Presidential Debates

Bryan Van Norden
Government, Politics & Economics
We have been treated to two ugly Presidential debates and one ugly Vice-Presidential debate this election year.  However, there are three simple reforms that would substantially improve the quality of...

What I Told My Freshmen about Voting

Bryan Van Norden
Government, Politics & Economics, Society & Culture
Many of you are eligible to vote for the first time in this election. I want to take a moment today to encourage you to vote and give you a quick, non-partisan introduction to Presidential elections. Martyrs...

Kasich Is Right: Teachers ARE the Problem

Bryan Van Norden
Education, Politics & Economics
Governor John Kasich is currently considered a plausible “moderate” Republican Presidential candidate if the GOP goes to a brokered convention. In fact, he has said that, “It’s going to be so much fun....

Republican Majority Leader Explains Refusal to Consider Obama’s Supreme Court Nominee [SATIRE]

Bryan Van Norden
Politics & Economics
In which the Republican Majority Leader meets with reporters to clarify why Republicans refuse to perform their duty under the Constitution to hold hearings for a candidate nominated by a standing President.
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