We’re now posting serially at thinkspot the transcripts of my Open College podcasts. Here’s the sixteenth: Socialism is partly an ethos, and partly it’s politics. The ethos is that you belong to a social unit, not an individual self; your allegiance, your values, and in some cases, your identity comes from being a part of […]
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1. Why does reason even matter? 2. What’s important about the Enlightenment? 3. Kant’s “Copernican Revolution” — a counter-Enlightenment subjectivism? 4. Canada and the USA as importers of ideas from Europe? 5. Common themes in Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche? 6. Subjective passionism contra liberal democracy? 7. Which groups will dominate in the conflict? 8. Why are
Canada Strong and Free Network interview — Troy Lanigan Read More »
I’ll be moderating a panel of heavy hitters on the theme of The Rise of Authoritarianism. Psychologist Jay Friedman (Manhattan College), philosopher David Kelley (Ph.D., Princeton University), and economist Richard Salsman (Duke University) will take up what authoritarianism is, whether it’s an increasing threat, if so why, and what we should do to advance genuine
Authoritarianism panel tomorrow: Kelley, Friedenberg, Salsman Read More »
Transcript of Sargon of Akkad’s (a.k.a. Carl Benjamin) interview with Stephen Hicks.
Pomo as military strategy? Sargon of Akkad conversation Read More »
The second Waterfall course: Socialism. Examine the aspirations, arguments, strategies, and disasters of socialist theory and practice—as well as explore the strongest criticisms of socialism. Authors include Ayn Rand, Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Robert Heilbroner, Alan Charles Kors, George Orwell, Michael Harrington, Ludwig von Mises, Steven Horwitz, and C.S. Lewis. This week’s Waterfall features my
Hicks on “Can socialism be democratic?” [Waterfall] Read More »
Suppose Congress has passed and the President signed the Retail Redistribution Ruling (RRR). The RRR’s terms are that all WalMart stores are now nationalized, and for one day every WalMart store will be open to the public for citizens to take something they want. You receive in the mail a ticket entitling you to enter
On looting WalMart as moral under the RRR Read More »
A number of free-society individuals and organizations I’m involved with have been arguing about whether it’s appropriate to participate in the US government’s Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), devised in response to the Covid-19 disruptions, shut-downs, and lockdowns. That particular program’s issues raise also more general issues of government funds. So: my thoughts. (Speaking only for
On accepting government grants, paybacks, subsidies (and the PPP in particular) Read More »
I agree with the university’s decision to drop Wilson’s name. The man’s anti-individualism came in many terrible versions: racist, socialist, and statist-democratic. Here’s Professor Wilson, before he became President, endorsing democratic socialism: ‘State socialism’ … proposes that all idea of a limitation of public authority by individual rights be put out of view, and that
On Princeton’s re-naming the Woodrow Wilson school Read More »