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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We’re adding another Q&A session at thinkspot, due to the number of very good questions I’ve been receiving. July 4’s Q&A will focus on the questions about Nietzsche and Rand. (The ones so far are listed below.) July 11’s Q&A will be an open session focusing on the questions about statues, violence from Right and
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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 guides—as well as explore the
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Live Q&A on Nietzsche vs. Rand. After two lectures, time for the Q&A session and last part of this mini-course. Saturday, July 4th, 12 -1 PM Central Time, at thinkspot. Free for my subscribers. Feel welcome to post your questions ahead of time. Others can register here: https://thinkspot.com/event_signup?event=lPuwOA
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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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