Stephen Hicks

PanAm Post interview by Belén Marty — Spanish, Portuguese, and English versions

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In Buenos Aires, I was interviewed by journalist Belén Marty for the PanAm Post. The theme was populism, postmodernism, and politics, as captured in the title “Populism Succeeds Where Education Fails.” Here are the interview’s original Spanish and English versions, and the interview has now also been translated into Portuguese by Adriel Santana.

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Do We Really Live in a World of Scarce Resources? [new The Good Life column]

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The opening of my latest column at EveryJoe: “You’ve likely heard the Bad News: we are supposed to be running out of resources. As a result you are sometimes asked: Will you continue use up resources selfishly — or are you willing to make sacrifices? Possibly you individually are a person of selfless virtue, but how likely

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My Kaizen interview with Argentine entrepreneur Billy Yeatts

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This interview could be subtitled Entrepreneurship from Buenos Aires to Tierra del Fuego to Houston and Bolivia and more. Guillermo “Billy” Yeatts has had a colorful career, first working as an analyst for Citibank in New York and an executive for Ford in Detroit and Massey Ferguson in Argentina before launching his own entrepreneurial businesses

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Lifeboat Ethics: How Scarcity Thinking Sets Us at Each Others’ Throats [new The Good Life column]

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The opening of my latest column at EveryJoe: “A scenario that is beloved of ethicists, public policy experts, and management consultants asks you to imagine yourself on a lifeboat. “Built into such scenarios are powerful assumptions with life-or-death consequences, so as we work through the lifeboat scenario try to make those assumptions explicit. Here we go: “You

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Upcoming seminar in Lisbon, Portugal: “The Enlightenment versus Postmodernism”

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On December 6, 2014, I’ll be giving a three-hour seminar for graduate students at the Catholic University of Portugal. My topic is “Two Narratives of Modernity: Enlightenment and Postmodern.” The seminar is hosted by the Institute for Political Studies and is part of its “Governance, Leadership and Democracy Studies” series. Many thanks to Professor João

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O renascimento do nazismo na Europa – não é somente racismo

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Um antigo fantasma está novamente assombrando a Europa — movimentos e partidos políticos neofascistas e neonazistas estão voltando à tona. Essa reportagem no The Guardian destaca um aumento nos ataques aos judeus na França, Alemanha e Holanda. Mais ao leste e ao sul, partidos simpatizantes ao nazismo estão crescendo nas urnas em países como Hungria

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