On Friday, August 28, philosopher Douglas Rasmussen will speak Rockford University on The Value of Philosophy and on Business Ethics. Dr. Rasmussen is Professor of Philosophy at St. John’s University in New York. He received his Ph.D. from Marquette University and is the co-author of Norms of Liberty: A Perfectionist Basis for Non-Perfectionist Politics, Liberalism […]
Douglas Rasmussen to speak at Rockford University Read More »
Em sua vida, quantas vezes você presenciou um consenso geral sobre a significado de um grande fenômeno cultural? Está acontecendo agora, quando libertários, conservadores, progressistas e radicais de esquerda concordam que a podridão tomou conta do politicamente correto (PC). O inferno está congelando e os porcos agora podem voar. Os sintomas de PC são bem-conhecidos: hipersensibilidade
Gatilhos mentais e micro-agressões como estratégias Read More »
I gave a talk in June at a conference sponsored by Fundación para la Responsabilidad Intelectual, Junior Achievement Argentina, and the John Templeton Foundation. I spoke (in English) on “Cómo las Revoluciones se Ganan o se Pierden,” or “How Revolutions are Won and Lost.” Here is a video of the talk:
Video of my talk in Buenos Aires Read More »
Interview conducted at Rockford University by Stephen Hicks and sponsored by the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship. Hicks: Our guest today is John Chisholm. John is a serial entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, now based in San Francisco, involved in a number of ventures. And he was here today talking to the Business and Economic Ethics
Video Interview with John Chisholm — Transcript Read More »
Professor Piotr Kostyło of Casimir the Great University in Bydgoszcz, Poland, published a review of Nietzsche and the Nazis. The text of the review follows: Do We Know What We Advocate? Stephen Hicks’s Defence of Individualism The forty-five years of communism in Poland (1944-1989) were marked by the government reminding society of the atrocities committed during
Piotr Kostyło’s review of *Nietzsche and the Nazis* Read More »
On Sunday, July 26, I’ll be giving a talk at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. My topic is “The Next Revolution in Art.” An excerpt from the opening of my talk: “Art is a perennial human desire. We need and hunger for stories, images, and sounds that are unique, beautiful, self-affirming, and/or profound. We love
Upcoming lecture in Hong Kong Read More »
This image (click to enlarge) was taken during a state visit between socialist president Evo Morales of Bolivia and leftish pope Francis of the Vatican. The gift is a crucifix affixed to a sickle and hammer. I’m reminded of these words from my Nietzsche and the Nazis (2010), about the philosopher on Christianity and socialism:
Evo Morales, Pope Francis, and Friedrich Nietzsche Read More »
Michael Pearce is the author of the recent Art in the Age of Emergence, for which I wrote this blurb: “Michael Pearce is that rare phenomenon — a practicing artist who knows art from the inside and an intellectual versed in what the cognitive sciences teach us about why we make art. This book —
Michael Pearce on the re-emergence of representational art Read More »