Who are the Wokists/SJW/CRT channeling? Karl Mannheim writing in 1944: “Hitler has invented a new method which could be called Nazi group strategy. The main point about Hitler’s psychological strategy is that he never approaches the individual as a person but always as a member of a social group. What Hitler does instinctively is in […]
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Economic historian Robert Hessen was a Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. This week in the Atlas Intellectuals course on Capitalism we consider Hessen´s views on key elements and controversies in Capitalism´s modern history, focusing especially on its economic individualism. The full course: https://www.atlassociety.org/course/capitalism. Other Atlas Intellectuals courses on Socialism, Objectivity, Money, Robotics, and
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Critical Race Theory and Medical Education Stephen R. C. Hicks, Department of Philosophy, Rockford University, Illinois, USA 61108 [Invited comment on J. Tsai, “Building Structural Empathy to Marshal Critical Education into Compassionate Praxis: Evaluation of a Peer-Led Critical Race Theory Course,” for Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics, Special Issue on “Race and Ethnicity in
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Word play: “Beware of swallowing Postmodernism ― it will give you Theorrhea.” ― Stephen R. C. Hicks, author of Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault.
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“This is not a book review but a flat-out endorsement. Stephen R. C. Hicks’s Explaining Postmodernism is a great but very scary read.”
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This week in the Atlas Intellectuals course on Capitalism we consider Ayn Rand´s controversial “What is Capitalism?” In this 1965 essay, first published in The Objectivist Newsletter and later in Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, Rand presents her philosophical and especially moral argument for capitalism. The full course: https://www.atlassociety.org/course/capitalism. Other Atlas Intellectuals courses on Socialism, Objectivity, Money, Robotics, and
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Leighton Woodhouse wrote this perceptive piece focused on Foucault’s History of Sexuality, Volume I. Woodhouse is right that sometimes Foucault offers only descriptive accounts of constitutive power relations. (Like in HS, though even in HS he does not consistently stick to that.) But that’s not the only Foucauldian text. Foucault also describes himself as a
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Via Ars Europa: “In 1826, the sculptor John Graham Lough returned to London and took up residence in Burleigh Street, above a greengrocer’s shop was he started his Milo of Croton, inspired by Michelangelo’s masterpieces. Lough became obsessed with his work, living on only bread and water. Soon the piece became too big for the
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