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Hicks’s “Your Sex Life Under Socialism” [Waterfall]

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Waterfall is a guided series of courses for everyone 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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Livestream Q&A at thinkspot: Questions so far

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Saturday at noon Central. Sign up here: https://thinkspot.com/event_signup?event=MJuLoQ. Questions posted so far: SLAVERY 1. [T]he current reparations demands from more organized BLM representatives: what are your thoughts on the current reparations debate? Do you foresee radical forms or lesser forms of it manifesting in policy? Are you in agreement with certain forms of it? Do

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Postmodernism’s Moral *Low* Ground [Open College transcript]

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We’re posting serially at thinkspot the transcripts of my Open College podcasts. Here’s the thirteenth: OC13: Postmodernism’s Moral *Low* Ground. “Our classic rules are as follows: Approach discussion with a spirit of benevolence, give people the initial benefit of the doubt, make one’s goal the mutual advancement of understanding, hear out both or all sides

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Social Justice for Libertarians? Hicks and Horwitz at Friedman 8

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My friendly debate/discussion with Dr. Steven Horwitz about whether advocates of freedom can or should make common cause with the Social Justice movement. After the introductions by the organizers of the Friedman 8 conference in Australia, my opening remarks run from minute 1 to about minute 22. Then Professor Horwitz gives his initial remarks, at

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*Robots and Your Work* — Saturday lecture at thinkspot

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Does technology put people out of work? A common fear — but consider the Internet. While the Internet “seemingly decimated industries—music, media, retail, travel, and taxis—a study by McKinsey Global Research found the net created 2.6 new jobs for each one it extinguished.”* My thinkspot lecture tomorrow (Saturday) is on the impact robotics and artificial

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Rand’s “The Left: Old and New” [Waterfall]

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Waterfall is a guided series of courses for everyone 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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Emilio Garcia’s “Radical Center” podcast conversation with me

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At the 14-minute-mark begins Emilio Garcia’s 15-minute interview of me. Main questions: How does postmodernism develop from tolerance to skepticism to dogmatism? Is the conservative far-right any better on its key issues? The third alternative to collectivism/dogmatism share by both far left and right?

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