Stephen Hicks

“The truth is that, to many people calling themselves Socialists, revolution does not mean a movement of the masses with which they hope to associate themselves; it means a set of reforms which ‘we’, the clever ones, are going to impose upon ‘them’, the Lower Orders.” The Road to Wigan Pier, 1933

I’ll be live today with Carter at the Unsafe Spaces conversation. 7 pm Central. Topics: The scary “isms”: Wokism, Postmodernism, Critical Theory conspiratorialism, and more.

Two-minute answers to key questions about philosophy, politics, art, and the meaning of life. The important values in life — friendship, art, careers, forming a philosophy of life — are those primarily individual or collective? Filmed in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The full series is published at the CEE Video Channel. Description: At some point in

Our topic was the many intellectuals who supported National Socialism — Heidegger, Schmitt, Dietrich — along with the other psychological and cultural factors that explained the enormous popularity and enthusiasm for the Nazis in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Follow-up question: What are the parallels to today’s facist/antifa activists? Our first conversation, on postmodernism

In my Introduction to Philosophy course this semester, we read: PlatoJohn LockeImmanuel KantJohn DeweyB. F. SkinnerAlbert CamusJean-Paul SartreAyn RandMaria MontessoriKarl MarxMichel FoucaultHenry Giroux Diverse enough?

About whom was this written, and when? “There was an unbelievable degree of intellectual homogeneity, of acceptance of a standard set of views complete with cliché answers to every objection, of smug self-satisfaction at belonging to an in-group. … They had cliché answers but only to their self-created straw-men. To exaggerate only slightly, they had