Stephen Hicks

Steve Mariotti on teaching capitalism in the Soviet Union

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In a recent Huffington Post piece entitled “Teaching Capitalism in the Last Days of the USSR,” Steve Mariotti discusses his experience teaching business and capitalism to young people during the final days of the Soviet Union. Fascinating. I interviewed Mariotti for Kaizen on his excellent Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE). Before founding NFTE, Mariotti was […]

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A fowl saga

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Driving home today along a country road, I witnessed a rare event: A vulture playing chicken with a falcon over a turkey carcass. The vulture was a real vulture working a real turkey carcass near the edge of the road, stopping only to face down an oncoming car, which turned out to be an older

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Do conservatives value economic liberty?

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The question matters because many smart libertarians and conservatives, Bryan Caplan included, are wondering whether the two groups can overcome their differences, either for short-term coalitions on particular issues and elections or to create a longer-term movement. My view is that the philosophical differences between the two militate against long-term compatibility, though there are prospects

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Kindle edition of Explaining Postmodernism, Expanded Edition, now available

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The Kindle version of the new, Expanded Edition of my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault is now available. The hardcover will be out next month. The expanded edition also includes my Free Speech and Postmodernism and From Modern to Postmodern Art: Why Art Became Ugly essay. Images of the art works

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Talk at Free Minds / Atlas Society seminar

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I’ll be giving a talk entitled “Using Great Entrepreneurs to Teach Great Philosophy” at the Free Minds / Atlas Society seminar in Anaheim next week. The complete list of speakers and talk titles is available starting here. While in California, I’ll also be interviewing a stylish entrepreneur for an upcoming issue of Kaizen.

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