Stephen Hicks

Entrepreneurial Education conference — next week

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The Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship is hosting a conference March 31-April 1 on Entrepreneurial Education. Speakers T. K. Coleman (Praxis) María Marty (Fundación para la Responsabilidad Intelectual) Nicholas Capaldi (Loyola University New Orleans) Kevin Currie-Knight (East Carolina University) Marsha Familaro Enright (The Great Connections Seminars) Terry Noel (Illinois State University) Jed Hopkins (Edgewood College) […]

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Campus Power Politics – It’s Calculated Strategy [Good Life series]

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Universities are political places, but there’s good politics and bad. First point: The protesting students are neither “snowflakes” who can’t take the heat nor “delicate flowers” whose feelings have been bruised. University students have seen movie violence, broken up with boyfriends and girlfriends, read ugly things on the internet, viewed porn clips, lost grandparents, and

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Olympe de Gouges’s 1791 declaration of women’s rights

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Olympe de Gouges’s first-wave feminism and her The Declaration of the Rights of Woman (1791). The first two items: “1. Woman is born free and remains equal to man in rights. Social distinctions may be based only on common utility. 2. The purpose of all political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible

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Free and/or Safe Speech in Postmodern Times — upcoming talk in New York

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I’ll be speaking at St. John’s University on March 27. My topic is “Safe and/or Free Speech in Postmodern Times.” Abstract: The liberal case for free speech won out in the modern world — but it has been challenged strongly, not only by traditional conservatives but also by the postmodern left. Hate speech, micro-aggressions, safe spaces,

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Spanish translation of “Profits: Good, Bad, and Obscene” forthcoming

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My article on the justice or injustice of profits — “Profits: Good, Bad, and Obscene” will be out in Spanish translation next month. The article takes up the classic issue in business ethics of that status of profits, and my argument with examples explains profit in terms of the underlying concepts of cause and effect

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