Philosophy

Social Justice for Libertarians? Libertarians for Social Justice? Or neither?

At the 24-hour virtual conference hosted by the Australian Libertarian Society: Stephen Hicks and Steve Horwitz who will offer their very different perspectives on the libertarian response to the social justice movement. Click to register for the “24-hour digital liberty marathon.”

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The Skrobot conversation: colonialism, poverty and racism in America

A long form conversation with Dubai-based host Lucas Skrobot. Our topics: * Objectivity, wealth creation, and individual agency * The legacy of colonialism * Botswana and Zimbabwe, Hong Kong, Japan, * Sweden and Norway: first individualistic and market-based; then more re-distributive. * Poverty and pockets of socialism in America: government welfare, government schools, government restrictions

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On Loving and Hating the American Founding

Like larger-than-life artists, athletes, scientists, movie stars, and entrepreneurs, the United States of America generates polarized love-hate responses. The U.S. was born committed to making a new nation based consciously on moral ideals rather than the happenstance of historical evolution: Individuals’ lives are their own to live. They are free to choose their own goals

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Marx’s “Power of Money in Bourgeois Society” [Waterfall]

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 guides—as well as explore the

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“The Dim Ruins of the Enlightenment”? [Open College transcript]

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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