“You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action. In France you get freedom of action: you can do what you like and nobody bothers, but you must think like everybody else. In Germany you must do what everybody else does, but you may think as you choose. […]
Tyranny of the majority — American versus English versus French versus German versions Read More »
“The idea that America is fundamentally flawed because some people have a [racist] problem in their minds, that’s a recipe to keep you in poverty and unhappiness for the rest of your life,” said Juan Saldivar, a father of a Southlake student, to explain his opposition to restructuring Southlake schools around ‘systemic racism.’ “My parents
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Stephen R. C. Hicks Traducido al Español por Fermín Elizalde. (El artículo original en inglés. Original English: Why Philosophy Begins with Thales.) La afirmación estándar es que la filosofía comienza con Thales. Cuando les enseño esto a mis alumnos, es difícil de vender, porque aquí están los textos fundadores de la filosofía, que Aristóteles atribuye
¿Por qué la filosofía comienza con Thales? Read More »
The UAE’s University of Sharjah and the CSR Al Ahli Group are hosting a conference on the theme of “Innovation and Global Competition”. I’ll be participating in a panel headed by Eduardo Marty on Monday, the 22nd of February 2021 from 4pm to 6pm UAE time (UTC +4). My theme is: Leadership for InnovationIf you
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Francis and Konstantin are two professional comedians in London, England, whose recent guests include Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay, Douglas Murray, Coleman Hughes, and many others. They interviewed me on (humor-deficient) postmodernism, identity politics, cancel culture, how to fix education, and optimism about the future despite these dark times. Here’s the video. A rough transcription is
Triggernometry: interview Read More »
We’re now posting serially at thinkspot the transcripts of my Open College podcasts. Here’s the sixteenth: Socialism is partly an ethos, and partly it’s politics. The ethos is that you belong to a social unit, not an individual self; your allegiance, your values, and in some cases, your identity comes from being a part of
Stephen Hicks Interview with Glenn Beck [Open College transcript] Read More »
I approve of this message. [Thanks to A.H. for the meme-reminder.]
Racism: scale perspective Read More »
I will be a guest, along with the excellent Marian Tupy, on the TASA show hosted by Jennifer Grossman. The positive data on human progress are overwhelming. Yet so many are pessimistic. Is it simple ignorance of the data? Is it that bad news drowns out the good? Is it that we’ve made only technical
Marian Tupy (Cato) and Human Progress: TASA conversation upcoming Read More »