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Panel: Critical Race Theory quotes, and Pipeline Threats and Politics

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Here’s a link to my panel discussion on Critical Race Theory and Pipeline Cyber-Threats and Politics. Vickie Oddino hosted me and economist Richard Salsman. I contrast individualist anti-racism to the new Postmodern- and Critical-Theory-derived strategies. Along the way I discuss these three revealing descriptions of (1) postmodern anti-individualism, (2) the structural part of “structural racism”, […]

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Narcissistic Personality Disorder and the Woke/SJW type

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Here are the seven standard diagnostic criteria for Narcissistic Personality Disorder. If five are met the full diagnosis of NPD is warranted. As you read through the list of seven, keep in mind your image of the stereotypical social justice warrior type. 1. Believe they are “special” 2. Sense of entitlement 3. Envious of others

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Sebastian Lenk and me on post-Enlightenment philosophy

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Sebastian Lenk is a smart student in Germany, and he invited me to this conversation at his new podcast series, available on a variety of platforms via this link at his site. “I invite Stephen Hicks for a thought-provoking discussion on the post-enlightenment evolution of philosophy.“

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Semester’s over and final grades are in …

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… and while I have some follow-up beseechings and complaints, I am pleased also to get emails like this from a student in my Bio-medical Ethics course:

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A short history lesson in Woke SJW strategy

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Who are the Wokists/SJW/CRT channeling? Karl Mannheim writing in 1944: “Hitler has invented a new method which could be called Nazi group strategy. The main point about Hitler’s psychological strategy is that he never approaches the individual as a person but always as a member of a social group. What Hitler does instinctively is in

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Critical Race Theory and Medical Education [Commentary]

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Critical Race Theory and Medical Education Stephen R. C. Hicks, Department of Philosophy, Rockford University, Illinois, USA 61108 [Invited comment on J. Tsai, “Building Structural Empathy to Marshal Critical Education into Compassionate Praxis: Evaluation of a Peer-Led Critical Race Theory Course,” for Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics, Special Issue on “Race and Ethnicity in

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“Individualism in Art” — Wittkower essay

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A few excerpts from Rudolf Wittkower‘s important essay “Individualism in Art,” published in Journal of the History of Ideas 22 (1961), 291-302. From guild monopolies to individual entrepreneurism: “It would seem that with the breaking of the guild monopoly in the course of the XVth century the artist’s attitude to his work changed. Instead of

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How Great Artists become Great: Mozart version

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born into a highly musical family. His father was was a skilled violinist and his older sister played the clavier excellently, so from his infancy he was surrounded by music. Yet, as he wrote in a letter to a friend, that was supplemented by deep study. “it is a mistake to

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