A new episode of my podcast series, produced by Possibly Correct out of Toronto.
Audio:
Topics: The challenge of extreme cases // Hitler’s Mein Kampf in particular // Joke: A German asks how many Poles it takes to change a lightbulb // Hard questions related to the Nazi history // Can ideas be banned? // How a free society combats wrong views.
Transcription: Forthcoming.
Related:
- Politicians Should *Not* Enforce Free Speech at Universities
- Galileo, free speech & censorship
- On Censorship under the National Socialists [Section 15 of Nietzsche and the Nazis]
- Featured in Canada’s Metro — free speech on campus
- Censorship in Iran — no surprises, but still …
The complete series of Open College with Stephen Hicks podcasts.
Hi Dr. Hicks, I was so incredibly excited to stumble across your podcast today via Jordan B. Peterson. You were my professor at what was, at the time, called “Rockford College” back in the late 90s. You were so important to me. I still would rate you as one of the most important people I have ever met in my entire life. You expanded my consciousness and got me thinking outside of the close minded, rigorously bigoted and abusive religious upbringing that I was raised with, and I honestly never looked back. I had so much fun in your class. We were a small group and we would sit around a table and discuss things I have never heard of before. I would love to get your thoughts and opinions on so many things and the things that you were talking about on this particular podcast really speak to what I would like to ask you about but it is such a controversial topic right now that I don’t want to name it here in case you are keeping your opinion out of it for the sake of maintaining your reputation. But there are many things going on in this country right now in particular in the western state which we now reside, where they are stripping away the human rights of our children for profit. So I guess my question for you, given that you are one of the honestly most intelligent people I have ever known, which country can a person or a family living where they would be safest in regards to maintaining autonomy over their body and their basic human rights. Because it certainly is not the United States, and never will it be again… perhaps it never was. Thank you again, for everything. Mostly for teaching us how to not be brainwashed ever again.
Thank you, Erica. : )