Stephen Hicks

Atheist and Theist Sacrificers — two sides of the same coin

The atheist socialist Eric Hobsbawm on the deaths of millions under the Marxists in the Soviet Union: “In 1994, he shocked readers of the Times Literary Supplement when, in an interview with Michael Ignatieff, he said that the deaths of millions of Soviet citizens under Stalin, although ‘probably excessive,’ would have been worth it if

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What Business Ethics Can Learn from Entrepreneurship — audio version

Here’s a 21-minute audiobook version of my “What Business Ethics Can Learn from Entrepreneurship,” first published in print in The Journal of Private Enterprise. Other audio editions: Article: “Egoism in Nietzsche and Rand,” (JARS, 2009). Book: Nietzsche and the Nazis (Ockham’s Razor, 2010). Review: Tara Smith’s Ayn Rand’s Normative Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 2006).

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“My white skin disgusts me”

Lesson: The groundwork for this generation’s militant “antiracist-but-not-really” wokism was prepared by my generation.  “My white skin disgusts me” was my introduction to Robin Morgan’s autobiographical The Demon Lover: On the Sexuality of Terrorism, published in 1989, recounting her journey through the New Left, Marxism, postmodernism, left feminism, racialism, and flirtations with revolutionary violence. The

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau on censorship [from Explaining Postmodernism]

Jean-Jacques Rousseau said: “Considering the awful disorders printing has already caused in Europe, and judging the future by the progress that this evil makes day by day, one can easily predict that sovereigns will not delay in taking as many pains to banish this terrible art from their States as they once took to establish

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