Stephen Hicks

Conservatives Are *Not* Free-market Capitalists [Open College series]

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The third episode in my Open College with Dr. Stephen Hicks podcast series. Audio links: iTunes. Soundcloud. Stitcher. YouTube. Topics and times: Conceptual clarification: “conservative,” “revolutionary,” “liberal” // Donald Trump versus Charles Koch // Robert Bork, Irving Kristol, Russell Kirk, Pat Buchanan, and Alexander Solzhenitsyn // Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek, and Ayn Rand // Why

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*Explaining Postmodernism* audiobook now available

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The audiobook of the Expanded Edition of my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault is now available at Audible and iTunes: Audible iTunes The narrator is Scott R. Smith. Listening length is 7 hours and 23 minutes. The expanded edition includes my Free Speech and Postmodernism and From Modern to Postmodern Art: Why Art Became Ugly essays. Images

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Violent Politics—the Lesson of Marxist *Philosophy* [Open College series]

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Episode 2 in my Open College with Dr. Stephen Hicks podcast series. Audio link: iTunes Soundcloud Stitcher Topics and times: History // Three options: coincidence, unintended consequences, intended // Quoting Marx, Engels, Lenin, Dzerzhinsky, Trotsky, Hobsbawm // Environmental determinism in Marxism // Plasticity of human nature in Marxism // Economic circumstances as fundamental social-environmental forces //

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Open College launched: “Free Speech: Why the *Philosophy* Matters”

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Reposting for weekend listeners, the first episode of my Open College with Dr. Stephen Hicks podcast series. Audio links: iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/open-college-podcast/id1438324613 Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/opencollegepodcast/open-college-1-free-speech Topics and Times: What a meaningful life requires: [00:00 — 03:31] Far left and far right on metaphysics, human nature, and ethics [03:31 — 10:35] Walt Whitman quotation [09:28 — 10:35] Why the authoritarian left [10:35

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