Stephen Hicks

Chapters Four (The Climate of Collectivism), Five (The Crisis of Socialism), and Six (Postmodern Strategies) narrated by the author, Stephen R. C. Hicks. Previously posted: Chapters One (What Postmodernism Is) Two (The Counter-Enlightenment Attack on Reason), and Three (The Twentieth-Century Collapse of Reason), are here. With timestamps for each section. CHAPTER FOUR: The Climate of […]

Nobody should own another human being, yet parent have basic decision rights and responsibilities for their children. That view has long been challenged by philosophers and politicians of authoritarian bent. Circa 1000 BCE. Spartan lawgiver Lycurgus’s policy: “children were not so much the property of their parents as of the whole commonwealth, and, therefore, would

Renaissance historian Boris von Brauchitsch writes: “Whereas 45 scribes had once required 22 months to copy 200 books for Cosimo de’ Medici, the two German priests who set up Italy’s first printing press in the Benedictine cloister of Subiaco in 1465 were able to turn out 12,000 volumes in only five years.” (Brauchitsch, Boris von.

Confession: I myself failed to notice the Village People’s violence, but the censors must know better. Apparently this list was circulated among the Communist Party’s higher-ups just before the Perestroika era.

Happily, my lecture at the University of British Columbia, Canada, now has over 330,000 views. It now also has the option of subtitles in English and Portuguese. YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BGbHG63x8w