Twitter’s suppression of Open College reminds me of the good old days when the Breitbart site attacked me for being a Marxist professor indoctrinating students into bomb-throwing revolution. “Professor Stephen Hicks of Rockford College is a Marxist devoted to educating cadres of revolutionaries.” (The Twitter ban’s being investigated; more information soon.)
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For this month’s livestreams at thinkspot, I’m comparing the ethical views of two of the most inspirational philosophers of all time. Join me in this 3-session course co-organized by thinkspot and Ayn Rand Center Latin America. Here’s my two-minute trailer for my June livestream lectures: * Session 1: June, Saturday 20th, 12-1 pm Central. On
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Looking forward to a lively discussion. More info: https://www.facebook.com/events/271644190701431/. Coincidentally, a new translation of Nietzsche and the Nazis into Polish has just come out. And the Polish edition of Explaining Postmodernism is also out there.
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This is an additional event, scheduled for Saturday morning. Those who purchased a ticket for the May 11th evening will have access to this event too. Subscribers to my thinkspot will, as always, get free access. Trailer for the three-event series is here. Or sign up here.
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I’m migrating my Facebook to a professional/public figure page: https://www.facebook.com/Stephen-Hicks-112833833732462/. Over the next days you’ll see a lot of picture-and-post maneuvering, so please bear with us. Please feel welcome to Friend/Like/Comment/Follow me. I’ll be continuing my usual posting there, as well as announcing my bi-weekly livestream lectures at THINKSPOT and regular OPEN COLLEGE podcasts. 😎
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Tomorrow. Some of the questions that we’ll be discussing: 1. Emergency power grabs and restrictions by governments have become normal and more agreeable to the public at large at the time of the crisis. Some of them tend to stay even after the crisis. What do we need to do in order to make sure
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On Sunday, April 19, I’ll be participating in a teleconference on this topic: At a time when governments around the world have invoked the crisis as a legitimate reason to increase state power, we see despotic tendencies taking over across the world. A crisis like a pandemic makes the citizenry agree to almost anything to
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A fun anecdote. Dr. Oakley’s online learning courses have over three million users, some based on her Mindshift book. We met a few years ago at a conference, and she recently recounted our first exchange. ‘True story: Barb was talking to a fellow colloquium attendee who seemed keenly aware of philosophy. She mentioned she only
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