Stephen Hicks

Interviewed by Ayn Rand Fan Club

Four-minute excerpt here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbeCQis1kh7fEaOGPhG96SA. Why is everyone talking about postmodernism? In the 1990s, could one predict the “culture war” of the 2010s? Full interview topics covered: How I first came to read Rand, predicting postmodernism, connecting psychology to philosophy, from abstractions to particulars and putting the measurements back in, dealing with subverters, character and getting […]

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Fired-from-Eton teacher Will Knowland interview forthcoming

On July 2, I’ll be interviewed by a man of integrity, Will Knowland, who was sacked from his teaching position at England’s prestigious Eton College. Here are two pieces of journalism on the context and results: Will Knowland was sacked from Eton College over video ‘The Patriarchy Paradox’ and Mixed race wife of Eton teacher

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Dr. Kostyło reviews *Nietzsche and the Nazis*

Dr. Piotr Kostyło is Head of the Department of Philosophy of Education at the University of Kasimir the Great, in Poland. Professor ‘s review essay, “Do We Know What We Advocate? Stephen Hicks’s Defence of Individualism“ takes up my book Nietzsche and the Nazis and my individualist response to the philosophical world of Friedrich Nietzsche

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Michael Rectenwald (NYU) discussion

Full interview in June 2021. We discussed Dr. Rectenwald’s Springtime for Snowflakes, along with my Explaining Postmodernism, and this series of topics: 00:00 Intro 00:51 Is the current contemporary left Rousseauian? 03:56 Anti-reason, anti-truth movement 06:39 Postmodernism as a crisis of faith in Marxism 12:05 Herbert Marcuse & the Frankfurt School 14:13 Where are we

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“Stephen Hicks: The Leftist Racism Industry”

With interspersed video excerpts from KImberlé Crenshaw, Robin DiAngelo, and Grievance Studies hoaxters Helen Pluckrose, James Lindsay, and Peter Boghossian — interviewer Mike Nayna asks me about Critical Theory — what was imported from Freud, the Frankfurt School, the subversion of cognitive theory, and how was it applied to CRT. 11-minute excerpt: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbeCQis1kh7fEaOGPhG96SA Full interview

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Friedman on market *and* government failures — which is worse?

“All economists—monetarists, Keynesians, or what-not—recognize that there is such a thing as market failure. I believe that what distinguishes economists is not whether they recognize market failure, but how much importance they attach to government failure, especially when government seeks to remedy what are said to be market failures. That difference in turn is related

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