Twitter has banned my Open College Podcast series. Just heard from my publisher in Toronto. They appealed but no explanation from the Twitterati. Surprised/not surprised laughter inside my head right now. More later. https://www.stephenhicks.org/audio-publications/open-college-with-stephen-hicks/
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We’re now posting serially at thinkspot the transcripts of my Open College podcasts. Here’s the fourth: OC: “The Dim Ruins of the Enlightenment”? Who said this? ““We live today amid the dim ruins of the Enlightenment project, which was the ruling project of the modern period.” And this: What to do—“now that both the Age
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John Anderson was Deputy Prime Minister of Australia and is now hosting a series of in-depth conversations with prominent thinkers. Others in the series include Niall Ferguson, Claire Lehmann, Bjorn Lomborg, Douglas Murray. I’m happy to be joining their distinguished ranks. Our episode of “Conversations with John Anderson” was recorded in Melbourne, Australia, in March
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This is a work in progress. Corrections and additions welcome. The long comparison table below is also here in PDF format. Nietzsche and Rand: A Comparison of Positions on 124 Issues Stephen R.C. Hicks, Philosophy, Rockford University Updated June 2020 Summary 124 issues tabulated below with quotations and sources. Agreements between Nietzsche and Rand: 21
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Waterfall is a guided series of courses for everyone interested in issues upon which Objectivism has something distinctive and important to say. The first course: Money. Examine the essential role that money plays in production, trade, and investment with thinkers such as Ayn Rand and Ludwig von Mises as your guide—as well as explore the hostility
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When I heard about the CHAZ Antifa/BLM/etc. takeover in Seattle, my first thought was: I wonder how many of them went to Evergreen College? Washington state’s Evergreen College was the site of the infamous racist intimidation/happening/experiment that made international news in 2017. (I recommend thinkspotter Benjamin Boyce’s documentary.) So I Googled it and it turns
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For use in my courses, additions to my Texts in Philosophy page. Martin Luther King, Jr., “Address at the Freedom Rally in Cobo Hall,” 1963. [His first “I have a dream” speech.] Herbert Marcuse, “Repressive Tolerance” (1965). George Walsh, “Defining Religion: The Supernatural as Personal/Impersonal” (1998). Excerpt from The Role of Religion in History. Woodrow
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The common factors? None from Australia or the Americas. None are women. None are political individualists or free-market capitalists. So … * Six were socialists. * Three came to dictatorial power from military backgrounds. * And one was a hereditary monarch. Image source: https://www.infobae.com/america/mundo/2018/09/29/los-10-dictadores-mas-sanguinarios-del-siglo-xx/
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