Stephen Hicks

I’m in Rapid City, South Dakota today, speaking at 2 p.m. local time on “Democratic Socialism for Beginners.” The full FreedomFest lineup of speakers and sessions is here.

Excerpt from my interview with The Reason We Learn.

I was interviewed by Will Knowland, who was sacked from his teaching position at England’s prestigious Eton College over a Woke-controversial lecture. Our theme: Educate or Indoctrinate? Here’s a two-minute excerpt: Is everything just power? And here is the full interview (list of questions and topics is below): (Here are two pieces of journalism on

Three quick steps: Critical Theory in general was developed by academics in the mid-1900s. Sub-species were developed in the late 1900s, among them Critical Legal Theory, Critical Race Theory, Critical Feminist Theory, and more. Shortly thereafter, an increase in academic work on Critical Theory applied to education. That culminates in these books published early 2000s:

Timestamping is now done for the audiobook edition. Nietzsche and the Nazis: A Personal View was first produced as a documentary in 2006. The book version was published in 2010. Translations are available into Farsi, Spanish, Polish, Russian, and a few more languages. Table of Contents: Part 1. Introduction: Philosophy and History [YouTube] [5 minutes]