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Good article at the Foundation for Economic Education’s site: First, the phrase “give back” implies that something was taken in the first place. It paints the successful entrepreneur as a taker who through their success has deprived us of something that must be returned. This could not be further from the truth. The problems with
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Introducing this new Atlas Intellectuals course on Socialism we will consider how Socialists define Socialism throughout the years Karl Marx, Henri de Saint-Simon, Robert Heilbroner and more. The full course: https://www.atlassociety.org/course/socialism Other Atlas Intellectuals courses on Capitalism, Objectivity, Money, Robotics, and more: https://www.atlassociety.org/atlas-university/atlas-intellectuals
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Episode 52 in my Open College with Dr. Stephen Hicks podcast series. I was interviewed by Will Knowland, who was sacked from his teaching position at England’s prestigious Eton College over a Woke-controversial lecture. Our theme: Educate or Indoctrinate? From the description: “Will Knowland was removed from his role at the prestigious Eton College after
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All Open College podcast episodes are now also available at the Odysee platform. Thanks to the team at Possibly Correct Productions, Toronto, for making that happen.
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Five-minute clip. Ryan Faulkner-Hogg of Atlas Geographica interviewed me long form about the early Nietzsche, including this excerpt on Nietzsche’s youthful discovery of Schopenhauer. The clip has a link to the full interview.
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The new Russian translation of Explaining Postmodernism was #3 in the August top sales for the biggest bookstore in Moscow, “Фаланстер” (Phalanstere). The cover:
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The transcription is now translated into Spanish, so one can either read in Spanish or English or listen to the original podcast in English. “Tu Vida Sexual Bajo el Socialismo” Por Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D. El socialismo se define de manera estándar como la propiedad colectiva de los medios de producción. ¿Qué implica eso
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