On inflation, gender and free speech, and pig-heart transplants (Hicks and Salsman on Current Events)
Dr. Richard Salsman and I discuss three philosophically charged current issues. I approve of this meme.
Philosophy
On 1930s American intellectuals — quotation
From MIT professor Leo Marx, who was a student at Harvard University in the 1930s. In those years many students were drawn to the Left. As an undergraduate I was active in the Harvard branch of the left-wing American Student Union and the editor of its magazine, the Harvard Progressive. For a year or so
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Explaining the cultural and electoral success of the National Socialists
Happy that this interview has topped 100,000 views. Related: Nietzsche and the Nazis, which is now closing in on 3 million views.
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Stalin on fascism
How accurate is this claim of Joseph Stalin’s? It is from 1924, still early in the Soviet Union’s dictatorship-of-the-proletariat stage of communism. Lenin had died in January, and this Stalin speech was published in September: Fascism is the bourgeoisie’s fighting organisation that relies on the active support of Social-Democracy. Social-Democracy is objectively the moderate wing
Speaking in Brazil, April 2022
I’m happy to be invited to speak in Porto Alegre, Brazil, on freedom of expression. The Fórum da Liberdade typically has 5,000 in-person attendees and 250,000 online around the world. Here’s the event website: https://www.forumdaliberdade.com.br/ I will also be in São Paulo working with my publisher to promote the Brazilian Portuguese edition of my Explaining
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On Marx’s Kantianism
In his biography of Michel Foucault, James Miller notes this important Kantian element in Marx: “Although the Cartesian sense of subjectivist coincided with individual consciousness and the cogito, in German philosophy after Kant the term came to connote a universal faculty (in Kant, the transcendental ego as the condition of the unity of empirical perception).
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What is art? | Philosophy for Real Life (17 of 22) | Stephen Hicks
Two-minute answers to key questions about philosophy, politics, art, and the meaning of life. What is the significance of art? Why is it so powerful? Filmed in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The full series is published at the CEE Video Channel. Description: At some point in our lives, we each ask ourselves the big questions. How
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Pinker on why we’re not “post-truth”
Read this. Thanks to Raymond Raad for the link.
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