Stephen Hicks

Lecture 1. Business Revolution In our introductory lecture, Dr. Hicks examines the revolutionary transformation of business over the past 200–300 years, highlighting dramatic gains in life expectancy, wealth, and technology. We explore how entrepreneurship, science, religion, and culture drove economic growth, while discussing personal values and responsibility in a diverse global marketplace. About the Course […]

I posted a link to the shocking Biblical story of Lot’s offering his virgin daughters to a mob for sex and later having incestuous sex with them. (Link and thread: FB, X.) Many religiously-minded folks immediately offered an array of interpretations. A digest: 1. It is not a morality story at all, merely a DESCRIPTION

I first knew of John Papola as producer of the hilarious video Fear the Boom and Bust: Keynes vs. Hayek – The Original Economics Rap Battle! He is also the CEO of the Emergent Order Foundation and host of the Dad Saves America podcast: “I sat down with philosopher and author Dr. Stephen Hicks to

A course by Stephen R.C. Hicks, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy. Eight lectures on our innovative business culture and the perennial challenges of entrepreneurship and leadership. What values does business pursue? What virtues of character enable successful value pursuit? How do contradictory moral theories provide conflicting advice—or demands—that require judgment about when to negotiate, when to

A partial truth, but not relevant to justifying a free society politically. Why not? A free society respects and protects freedom in many domains: religious liberty, artistic freedom, romantic liberty, economic freedom, and so on.Take the first—religious liberty—as working example, and apply JA’s criteria, saying: “You should have religious freedom because you are fallible, inconsistent,