Advice from Coco Chanel
“Don’t be like the rest of them, darling.”
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Philosophy
Tonight Reminder: *Is the USA a Capitalist Nation?* [Session 2 of “The Capitalism Course” with Professor Hicks]
October 27: Is the USA a “Capitalist” Nation? Two narratives govern our recent thinking, debating, and blame-gaming about the economy: (1) We’re a capitalist nation, and our troubles are the fault of capitalism, (2) We’re a mixed economy, and our troubles stem from the anti-capitalist elements of the mixture. How do we first sort out
Jerry Kirkpatrick’s new book
Professor Jerry Kirkpatrick, emeritus professor at California State Polytechnic University, is always worth reading. His new collection of short essays — Applying Principles: Short Essays Based on the Philosophy of Ayn Rand, Economics of Ludwig von Mises, and Psychology of Edith Packer — collects dozens of his short essays on topics ranging from philosophy to
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Demands of Justice and Demands of Art — Caravaggio edition
You are a law-abiding citizen and a lover of art. You happen to be in a bar in Rome one night in 1506, where you witness a drunken, brawling Caravaggio kill an adversary. The day before, you had visited Caravaggio’s studio. You knew of two of his completed masterpieces, which you admire greatly. And in
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Art’s devolution from Modernist to Postmodernist
Part I of “From Modern to Postmodern Art and Beyond” focused on Modernism’s brutalism, reductionism, and conceptualism — and philosophy’s contributions from Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud. “By the beginning of the twentieth century, the nineteenth-century intellectual world’s sense of disquiet had become a full-blown anxiety. The artists responded, exploring in their works the implications of
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George Orwell, “Review of *The Totalitarian Enemy* by F. Borkenau” [Atlas Intellectuals]
This week on the Atlas University course on Socialism we feature the Executive Summary of George Orwell’s “Review of The Totalitarian Enemy by F. Borkenau.” Orwell was clear-eyed about the dangers of authoritarian socialisms in Germany and Russia. In this 1940 review of The Totalitarian Enemy by Franz Borkenau, Orwell weighs the socialist credentials of Adolf Hitler’s
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“From Modern to Postmodern Art and Beyond,” Part 1 by Stephen Hicks
This lecture was given in New York at the Foundation for the Advancement of Art’s conference. ‘For a long time critics of modern and postmodern art have relied on the “Isn’t that disgusting” strategy. By that I mean the strategy of pointing out that given works of art are ugly, trivial, or in bad taste,
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Death advocates, Left and Right versions
From the left environmentalists, we get the voluntary human extinction movement. From the religious right, we get the involuntarily human death movement. Left: Right: The two are superficial enemies culturally, yet both are anti-humanist philosophically. For human beings, life is the standard of value; and for healthy humans, life is good. True lovers of humanity
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