Course Syllabi, Fall 2017
Syllabi for Professor Hicks’s Fall 2017 courses.
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“Progress and Betrayal” lecture, Rosario, Argentina
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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Me, 1968 and 2017
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.
Jordan Peterson and Stephen Hicks discuss Postmodernism
The two professors discuss Postmodernism in depth.
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New printing of *Explaining Postmodernism* — the fifteenth
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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Discussion with Jordan Peterson on August 17 — update
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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Charlottesville, Third- and Fourth-wave Postmodernism
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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Nancy MacLean’s postmodern rhetorical strategy
[Republished from The Foundation for Economic Education.] Nancy MacLean has written a postmodernist book, while her libertarian critics are writing modernist responses. The critics point out the free-wheeling, fact-free, and conspiracy-tinged narrative MacLean has constructed, and they argue that logically her account does not fit the reality of James Buchanan’s life and writings. All good
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