The atheist socialist Eric Hobsbawm on the deaths of millions under the Marxists in the Soviet Union: “In 1994, he shocked readers of the Times Literary Supplement when, in an interview with Michael Ignatieff, he said that the deaths of millions of Soviet citizens under Stalin, although ‘probably excessive,’ would have been worth it if […]
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Here’s a 21-minute audiobook version of my “What Business Ethics Can Learn from Entrepreneurship,” first published in print in The Journal of Private Enterprise. Other audio editions: Article: “Egoism in Nietzsche and Rand,” (JARS, 2009). Book: Nietzsche and the Nazis (Ockham’s Razor, 2010). Review: Tara Smith’s Ayn Rand’s Normative Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 2006).
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On Wednesday at 11 Central I’ll be speaking with Deb Fillman of The Reason We Learn. Posted here.
Upcoming live discussion: CRT and the Education Crisis Read More »
I’m very happy to see that the audio-book edition of Nietzsche and the Nazis now has more than 503K listens at YouTube. The project started as a documentary, which was then picked up by Netflix, and I then turned the script into a book. More information here about the different editions and translations.
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In this week of the Atlas Intellectuals course on Slavery we feature Stephen Hicks’s Open College Podcast on “The Stain of Slavery.” Topics: The decline of slavery as a moral achievement // History: slavery practiced everywhere before modernity // The internal African slave society and trades // The Atlantic trade and where the slaves went
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau said: “Considering the awful disorders printing has already caused in Europe, and judging the future by the progress that this evil makes day by day, one can easily predict that sovereigns will not delay in taking as many pains to banish this terrible art from their States as they once took to establish
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Comparando el desempeño económico de América del Norte y América Latina Por Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D. ¿Cuál es la razón de las grandes diferencias en el desempeño económico entre las dos Américas? Traducido al Español por María Marty, 2016. Para este y más artículos en español: https://www.stephenhicks.org/espanol/ Original article in English: https://www.stephenhicks.org/2017/01/04/comparing-north-and-latin-america-economic-performance-the-good-life/
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Two items jumped out at me in this Washington Post report about the terrible destruction of the Surfside-Miami-area building: 1. In 2018, the condo association hired a private engineering firm to examine the building: “In an October 2018 report, engineer Frank P. Morabito wrote that he had discovered “major structural damage” … 2. Despite that, a
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