Stephen Hicks

My three-lecture tour got me this photo op:

Americans and Canadians write it as they say it: “February 22, 2022” is written as 2/2/22. Others write it from smallest to largest unit of time: day/month/year, so 22/2/22. As for the numerology, various sources have it that 2 means balance, femininity, intuition, peace, union, new beginnings, and related stuff. In Pythagoras’s system, 2 is

The structure overlooking Lake Michigan is magnificent. Paired here with a painting from the museum’s collection—another love-of-light-and-space work.

Plato’s Idealism: “If we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself … no pure knowledge is possible in the company of the body … so long as we are alive, we shall continue closest to knowledge if

Excerpt from Charles Taylor on Sebastian Haffner’s memoir Defying Hitler, including his experience as a law student early in the National Socialist regime. If by now the incidents that follow are familiar—the intimidation, the erosion of press freedom, violence in the streets, people fleeing or attempting to flee—it’s their novelty to Haffner that carries the

I’m speaking to students today at a high school in Wisconsin, and using this chart comparing the top ten in year 2000 with the top ten in 2020. Also this from professor Steven Rogers; My theme for the students is: You are the entrepreneur of your life. That’s good news — let the adventure begin.