How much time should one dedicate to one’s university schedule? Being a university student is in part preparation for a career. So a helpful method is to schedule yourself as a serious person with a career does. On average professionals work 45 hours a week. (Early-stage professionals such as doctors, lawyers, teachers, and entrepreneurs typically […]
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Syllabi for Professor Hicks’s Fall 2017 courses.
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My lecture on “Progress and Betrayal — Latin American Intellectuals and the Difference between North and Latin American Economies” is up at YouTube: Thanks again to Federico Fernandez and the Bases Foundation for making this 2016 event possible.
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A summer trip to the family homestead in Canada brought me face to face with this pastel portrait my parents had done of me at age 7 or 8. Aside from the slightly crazed look in my (older me) eyes, I like the contrast and continuity.
The two professors discuss Postmodernism in depth.
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A new printing of the expanded edition was published this month in a snazzy hardcover. Its theme: “The failure of epistemology made postmodernism possible. The failure of socialism made postmodernism necessary.” This is the fifteenth printing since its first publication in 2004. Samples from the scholarly reviewers of the first edition: “By the end of Explaining
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On August 17 at 1 p.m. Eastern, Professor Peterson will host a discussion with me on the culture wars, postmodernism and its manifestations in university politicization, the pronoun mandates, and political correctness. The discussion will be recorded and later released on social media. Here are some earlier Peterson-Hicks intersections: (Here’s the mentioned Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism
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Clashing protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia — far right, far left, and others. Street violence and declarations of emergency by the governing officials. How did we get to this? First, how postmodernism evolved through three phases from high theory to coercive activism: Second, other anti-liberal and anti-rational movements learn and adopt the same strategies to their
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