Dancers and those who can’t hear the music
“Those who dance are thought to be insane by those who cannot hear the music.” (Channeling Germaine de Staël)
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¿Por qué el arte se volvió feo?
¿Por qué el arte se volvió feo? Por Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D. La pregunta importante es: ¿Por qué el mundo del arte del siglo XX adoptó lo feo y lo ofensivo? ¿Por qué ha derramado sus energías creativas y su astucia en lo trivial y autoproclamado como sin sentido? Para más artículos en español:
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Cornel West on Howard University’s dropping Classics
Well said by Cornel West and Jeremy Tate, in response to yet another university’s shrinking its vision: “We must be vigilant and draw the distinction between Western civilization and philosophy on the one hand, and Western crimes on the other. The crimes spring from certain philosophies and certain aspects of the civilization, not all of
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Employers pushing back against Cancel Culture
From a private correspondence: Quite frankly the “elite schools” are producing a raft of useless employees. These graduates come from an environment where dissent and opposing views are not only crushed, the person who expresses them becomes a pariah. I serve on the board of directors of an executive recruiting firm with a 40-year history.
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Stephen Hicks, “The Stain of Slavery” [Atlas Intellectuals]
In this week of the Atlas Intellectuals course on Slavery we feature Stephen Hicks’s Open College Podcast on “The Stain of Slavery.” Topics: The decline of slavery as a moral achievement // History: slavery practiced everywhere before modernity // The internal African slave society and trades // The Atlantic trade and where the slaves went
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Comparando el desempeño económico de América del Norte y América Latina
Comparando el desempeño económico de América del Norte y América Latina Por Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D. ¿Cuál es la razón de las grandes diferencias en el desempeño económico entre las dos Américas? Traducido al Español por María Marty, 2016. Para este y más artículos en español: https://www.stephenhicks.org/espanol/ Original article in English: https://www.stephenhicks.org/2017/01/04/comparing-north-and-latin-america-economic-performance-the-good-life/
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Anti-Slavery in the Americas: A Primer [Atlas Intellectuals]
In this week of the Atlas Intellectuals course on Slavery we feature Stephen Hicks’s analysis of slavery’s history: Anti-Slavery in the Americas: A Primer. The first two points: Before Columbus’s Atlantic crossing, slavery had long been practiced by every major culture in the world, with the likely exception of Australia. Virtually no individuals known to
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DML: Frederick Douglass [Atlas Intellectuals]
This week we are introducing a new Atlas Intellectuals course on Slavery. Let’s see this DML on Frederick Douglass: “Socialism Is Slavery Of All To All” After escaping from slavery in Maryland, Douglass became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, gaining prestige for his oratory and critical writing against
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