Review of Leonidas Zelmanovitz,The Ontology and Function of Money: The Philosophical Fundamentals of Monetary Institutions Lexington Books, 2015, 447 pp.Reviewed by Stephen HicksFirst published at Law and Liberty, edited by Richard Reinsch and Lauren Weiner. Money is funny, the old saying goes, both in the cognitive puzzles it generates and the motivational extremes of human […]
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It takes strength of mind to say: “I dislike intensely what you’re saying, yet I will tolerate your saying it.” It takes even more strength to respond with arguments rather than fists or censorship. Related:
Joseph Goebbels, Ph.D., was Reich Minister of Propaganda for the National Socialist government from 1933 to 1945 and, after Hitler, the second or third most powerful man in Germany. “According to the idea of the NSDAP [Nazi party], we are the German left. Nothing is more hateful to us than the right-wing national ownership block.”
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Two-minute answers to key questions about philosophy, politics, art, and the meaning of life. Art is about the full range of human experience, but Modernist and Postmodernist art emphasize the meaningless and the offensive. Why? Filmed in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The full series is published at the CEE Video Channel. Description: At some point in
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On February 17, I’ll be speaking in Milwaukee. I’m honored to be part of Wisconsin Forum’s line-up for the 2021-2022 season. My question will be: The economic, political, and historical evidence for the superiority of free societies is substantial — yet so many are suspicious or outright hostile, and often authoritarian policies prevail over genuinely
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“The View” host Whoopi Goldberg said that the Holocaust was “not about race” but about “man’s inhumanity to other man” and that it involved “two white groups of people.” ABC News responded by suspending her for two weeks. As cancellations go, that is mild — yet it still is a cancel-culture reaction. A healthier liberal
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I received this email on February 1, 2022:Hi Prof. Hicks, I saw your Facebook post about Jordan Peterson’s resignation and noticed XX’s comment. While I’m uncomfortable speaking up publicly about it for fear of retaliation against me from my faculty peers, I did want to note that I recently had a chair of a search
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The Berkeley Free Speech Movement, was a student-led initiative to increase and enhance the free-speech rights of students. Long-time political activist and University of California, Berkeley, professor Albert Lepawsky, said this: “The main task we face is preserving the university not merely as a free political community but primarily as an institution that is privileged
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