Alex Levy is a smart young philosopher in Mexico associated with Cuidad de Los Ideas. Our long-form conversation published this month: Apple, YouTube, Spotify. HIGHLIGHTS (1:40) What does philosophy mean to you? (4:15) How do you approach philosophy and big thinkers with big ideas? (6:35) W.T. Jones – A History of Western Philosophy (8:24) Do […]
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I’ll be co-speaking with philosopher Lou Marinoff at this London-based virtual event hosted by Vichaar Manthan. Thursday at 1 pm Central. Description: Historically, universities are bastions of academia. They are melting pots where ideas battle for supremacy. With the rise of cancel-culture and no-platforming, are we creating a generation unwilling to face uncomfortable truths? The
Is higher education dead — or merely wounded? Read More »
A strong claim from historian of science Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: “Every civilization of which we have records has possessed a technology, an art, a religion, a political system, laws, and so on. In many cases those facets of civilization have been as developed as our own. But only the civilizations that
Science’s dependence on philosophy — Kuhn, Toulmin, Heidegger, and the pomo Read More »
Transcript of Sargon of Akkad’s (a.k.a. Carl Benjamin) interview with Stephen Hicks.
Pomo as military strategy? Sargon of Akkad conversation Read More »
Waterfall is a guided series of courses for everyone interested in issues upon which Objectivism has something distinctive and important to say. The second course: Socialism. Examine the aspirations, arguments, strategies, and disasters of socialist theory and practice—as well as explore the strongest criticisms of socialism. Authors include Ayn Rand, Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Robert
Socialism Data [Waterfall] Read More »
How did postmodernism go from skepticism in the 60s and 70s to egalitarianism in the 80s and 90s to power-activism in the 00s and 10s? Here is a 1,200-word excerpt from a 2016 interview of Stephen Hicks by Mark Michael Lewis. Three Generations of Postmodernism: From Skepticism to Equality to Power Play Stephen R. C.
Three Generations of Pomo: From *Skepticism* to *Equality* to *Power Play* [transcript] Read More »
How Should Libertarians Respond to the Social Justice Movement? I was in a friendly debate with Dr. Steven Horwitz about this topic, hosted by the Friedman 8 Conference, Australia, July 2020. My opening remarks are transcribed below after moderator John Humphreys’s introduction. John Humphreys [Moderator]: I’ve been really looking forward to this one. I think
Libertarian Social Justice? Hicks and Horwitz at Friedman 8 [transcription] Read More »
Episode 43 in my Open College with Dr. Stephen Hicks podcast series: “Where does morality come from? Are moral codes merely conscious formulations of our strongest subjective needs? Nietzsche is one of the great critics of human psychology — contemptuously noting most people’s weakness — their cowardice and conformity. Can we all “Live dangerously?” How
Nietzsche’s Natural Slaves and Masters [Open College podcast] Read More »