Stephen Hicks

My lists are here: 1. Favorites in seven categories. https://www.stephenhicks.org/2019/08/11/great-books-recommended-reading/. 2. Best history of philosophy: https://www.stephenhicks.org/2021/03/01/best-history-of-philosophy-my-recommendation/. 3. Four books on postmodernism: https://www.stephenhicks.org/2014/09/16/four-recommended-books-on-postmodernism/. 4. My formative years: https://www.stephenhicks.org/2018/04/28/books-that-influenced-me-most-1973-1982/.

Governments are properly servants of their citizens. But if you’re a politician without principles or a dictator wannabe — and it does not matter if the issue is religious belief, marijuana use, or Covid — the pattern is always the same: * First, you paternalistically order citizens to comply, rather than advising and recommending free

NASA government budget: $23.3 billion. That’s money taken from citizens via compulsory taxation. Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic budget: Less than $1 billion. That’s money earned through voluntary trade. Which one is being complained about says much about the moral character of the complainer.

Deb FIllman long-form interviewed me for The Reason We Learn. Topics (with timestamps): 00:00 Preamble 01:49 Introduction 02:01 Global Problems are Too Big for Children 06:29 Intentional Indoctrination? 07:43 Is the current educational crisis philosophical? 09:48 What is it to be a human being? 11:04 The conflict of visions 16:28 How would you describe the

1. Batista first came to power in Cuba by being elected to office. He ran as head of the Democratic Socialist party, a coalition supported also by the Cuban Communist Party. The image is of an election poster. (History lesson: Beware of democratic socialists. They’re often wolves in sheep’s clothing.) 2. The US-embargo means there