Philosophy

Anti-Slavery in the Americas: A Primer [Atlas Intellectuals]

In this week of the Atlas Intellectuals course on Slavery we feature Stephen Hicks’s analysis of slavery’s history: Anti-Slavery in the Americas: A Primer. The first two points: Before Columbus’s Atlantic crossing, slavery had long been practiced by every major culture in the world, with the likely exception of Australia. Virtually no individuals known to

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Dr. Kostyło reviews *Nietzsche and the Nazis*

Dr. Piotr Kostyło is Head of the Department of Philosophy of Education at the University of Kasimir the Great, in Poland. Professor ‘s review essay, “Do We Know What We Advocate? Stephen Hicks’s Defence of Individualism“ takes up my book Nietzsche and the Nazis and my individualist response to the philosophical world of Friedrich Nietzsche

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Los cuatro errores del papa Francisco sobre el liberalismo

Los cuatro errores del papa Francisco sobre el liberalismo El papa Francisco nos ha dado varios indicios de su posición acerca del liberalismo, pero su negatividad es cada vez más evidente. En su mensaje a la Sesión Plenaria de la Pontificia Academia de Ciencias Sociales, las críticas fueron directas y, a veces, crudas. Si bien el Pontífice tuvo algunos

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Michael Rectenwald (NYU) discussion

Full interview in June 2021. We discussed Dr. Rectenwald’s Springtime for Snowflakes, along with my Explaining Postmodernism, and this series of topics: 00:00 Intro 00:51 Is the current contemporary left Rousseauian? 03:56 Anti-reason, anti-truth movement 06:39 Postmodernism as a crisis of faith in Marxism 12:05 Herbert Marcuse & the Frankfurt School 14:13 Where are we

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“Stephen Hicks: The Leftist Racism Industry”

With interspersed video excerpts from KImberlé Crenshaw, Robin DiAngelo, and Grievance Studies hoaxters Helen Pluckrose, James Lindsay, and Peter Boghossian — interviewer Mike Nayna asks me about Critical Theory — what was imported from Freud, the Frankfurt School, the subversion of cognitive theory, and how was it applied to CRT. 11-minute excerpt: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbeCQis1kh7fEaOGPhG96SA Full interview

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DML: Frederick Douglass [Atlas Intellectuals]

This week we are introducing a new Atlas Intellectuals course on Slavery. Let’s see this DML on Frederick Douglass: “Socialism Is Slavery Of All To All” After escaping from slavery in Maryland, Douglass became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, gaining prestige for his oratory and critical writing against

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