… and experienced, shall we say, the anxiety of incomprehension — then here is some possible consolation. In their 20s, Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir were among the very top philosophy students of their generation in France. Yet when they tried to read Heidegger in 1931, Beauvoir reported, “since we could not understand a […]
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My article “What Entrepreneurs Can Teach Us All About Life” has been published by The Wall Street Journal. Here is a snippet: “We often think of entrepreneurs as larger-than-life characters. They take big risks. They make their own rules. They innovate and experiment, questioning things everybody else takes for granted. “It can almost seem like entrepreneurs
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Nietzsche: “Being profound and seeming profound. —Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity. For the crowd believes that if it cannot see to the bottom of something it must be profound. It is so timid and dislikes going into
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On Monday, May 2, the Foundation for Economic Education will publish an abridged version of Grégoire Canlorbe’s interview with me. Title: Capitalism versus the Philosophers: An Interview with Stephen Hicks. Abstract: A market-friendly philosopher takes on postmodernists, Ayn Rand, Michel Foucault, and Fifty Shades of Grey. I’ll post the link upon publication.
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On May 2, The Wall Street Journal will publish my article “What Entrepreneurs Can Teach Us All About Life.” Here’s a snippet: “We often think of entrepreneurs as larger-than-life characters. They take big risks. They make their own rules. They innovate and experiment, questioning things everybody else takes for granted. “It can almost seem like entrepreneurs are a
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Rape is among the most horrific of crimes. Sex should be a fun and beautiful thing — but rape takes that most personal of experiences and turns it into a degradation. There is moderately good news about the number of rapes in the USA. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the rape rate has
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The opening of my latest column at EveryJoe: “What happens when you mix politics, bathrooms, and sexuality? Let the joking begin. “A politician walks into a transgender bar. [Fill in the blank here.] Afterwards, he tries to explain: “I really only wanted to use the bathroom.” “Ha ha. But the serious business is the busybody
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After beating up on some “left” icons (here, here, and here, for example), it’s time to give some grief to the “right.” American political vocabulary tends to sort people into liberals on the left and conservatives on the right. All are big-tent labels, and we argue continuously about how to place libertarians, progressives, socialists, theocrats,
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