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Libertarian Social Justice? Hicks and Horwitz at Friedman 8 [transcription]

How Should Libertarians Respond to the Social Justice Movement? I was in a friendly debate with Dr. Steven Horwitz about this topic, hosted by the Friedman 8 Conference, Australia, July 2020. My opening remarks are transcribed below after moderator John Humphreys’s introduction. John Humphreys [Moderator]: I’ve been really looking forward to this one. I think […]

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Nietzsche’s Natural Slaves and Masters [Open College podcast]

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Episode 43 in my Open College with Dr. Stephen Hicks podcast series: “Where does morality come from? Are moral codes merely conscious formulations of our strongest subjective needs? Nietzsche is one of the great critics of human psychology — contemptuously noting most people’s weakness — their cowardice and conformity. Can we all “Live dangerously?” How

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Religion and Socialism [Waterfall]

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Waterfall is a guided series of courses for those interested in issues upon which Objectivism has something distinctive and important to say. The second course: Socialism. Examine the aspirations, arguments, strategies, and disasters of socialist theory and practice—as well as explore the strongest criticisms of socialism. Authors include Ayn Rand, Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Robert

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Philosophy for Real Life — Première on Saturday

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At some point in our lives, we each ask ourselves the big questions. How we respond has great impact on our lives. Some accept easy answers or even try avoiding answering them —while others go on a quest to make their lives a meaningful adventure. In Philosophy for Real Life, we follow Dr. Stephen Hicks

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Do Free Societies Need Postmodernism? Debate follow-up

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Pleased to see that this debate has over 60,000 views at YouTube alone. The New York event was fun and instructive. During the debate, Thaddeus Russell and I differed sharply over how skeptical the leading postmodernists and their forerunners were. So in addition to quoting them directly, I offered to post the sources for them.

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Hicks on “Can socialism be democratic?” [Waterfall]

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The second Waterfall course: Socialism. Examine the aspirations, arguments, strategies, and disasters of socialist theory and practice—as well as explore the strongest criticisms of socialism. Authors include Ayn Rand, Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Robert Heilbroner, Alan Charles Kors, George Orwell, Michael Harrington, Ludwig von Mises, Steven Horwitz, and C.S. Lewis. This week’s Waterfall features my

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Ancestry DNA results and my true, inner self

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My Ancestry DNA results say I’m 98% British Isles mongrel – a roughly equal mix of Welsh, English, Scottish, and Irish. But also 2% Scandinavian. I therefore declare to the world that henceforth I self-identify as “Viking.”

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Philosophy for Real Life –– Advance-Première

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22 Questions about Life, Philosophy, Love, and Art. Join me for the Avant-Première of my film Philosophy for Real Life, which will take place at thinkspot on October 3rd at 12 pm Central, followed by a live Q&A session. Much thanks to producer Charlie Zagoren and his team. This event is free for my subscribers.

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