The opening of my latest column at EveryJoe: “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 […]
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Stephen R. C. Hicks Departamento de Filosofia e Centro para a Ética e Empreendedorismo Rockford University, Illinois, USA 1º Argumento Primeiro, vamos definir nossos termos. Por “liberalismo” nos referimos a um conjunto de princípios que são institucionalizados. Os cientistas políticos falam desses princípios de forma sistemática. Entre eles está o Estado de Direito, isto é,
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The opening of my latest column at EveryJoe: “First, some good news about the 1970s Love Canal environmental disaster in New York: long-term studies have shown no increase in rates of cancer or birth defects among the area’s residents. That’s welcome news, even though toxic chemicals were released into the environment, homeowners were frightened, dislocated,
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The video of a 50-minute talk I gave at the Atlas Summit in New Hampshire in June. Abstract: In a free market, some individuals will engage in corrupt business activities. One argument for government regulation holds that it reduces the amount of business corruption. Opponents of government regulation respond that free markets have the internal
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The opening of my latest column at EveryJoe: “Chances are good that someone you know owns a Che t-shirt. Romanticized versions of Ernesto Guevara Lynch’s bearded face are popular on campuses and elsewhere — so popular that the American chain store Urban Outfitters planned to release a whole line of Che-inspired fashion items, and dozens
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The opening of my latest column at EveryJoe: “A common meme about the financial crisis blames it on capitalism run amok and holds the rise of free-market fundamentalism among economists responsible for unleashing the greed. Academic economists, the argument runs, are largely free-marketers, and they convinced politicians to deregulate important swathes of the American economy,
A new page for my publications translated into Portuguese — six works so far and one forthcoming: Publicações em Português.
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The Theory of Human Rights and Its Criticism in the Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche [Note: Below are the abstract and summary in English of Dr. Przemysław Zientkowski’s book, published in Polish in 2013.] Abstract The book is devoted to the idea of human rights in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. Its main objective is to
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