… is forthcoming in August and is now available for pre-order at Amazon. It will be published in both hardcover and Kindle formats. The image is a gray-scale version of the cover. The book version is based on the script of the 2006 documentary and is now complete with footnotes, index, bibliography, appendices, and other […]
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Stephen Hicks discusses Marxism’s imperative of revolution and its rejection of evolutionary political change. From Part 13 of his Philosophy of Education course. Clips 1-2: Previous: The socialism in “scientific socialism”–Capitalism’s dynamic: “The rich get richer …” Next: Religion as the opium of the masses. Return to the Philosophy of Education page or the full
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Stephen Hicks discusses Marx’s claim that religion is the opium of the masses. This is from Part 13 of his Philosophy of Education course. Clips 1-3: Previous: Revolution, not evolution. Next: The role of teachers in developing revolutionaries. Return to the Philosophy of Education page. Return to the StephenHicks.org main page.
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I’ve been browsing Anne Heller’s biography of Ayn Rand. Ayn Rand and the World She Made came out last year, and I am late to the discussion. I was stuck by this line about the New York City that Rand lived in while she was writing Atlas Shrugged. Heller writes: “New York was such a
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Stephen Hicks discusses Ayn Rand’s liberal politics. This is from Part 12 of his Philosophy of Education course. Previous: The Romantic sense of life Next: Rational self-interest Return to the Philosophy of Education page. Return to the StephenHicks.org main page.
How is this for an oath of allegiance to one’s monarch? “We, who are as good as you, swear to you, who are no better than us, to accept you as our king and sovereign lord, provided you observe all our liberties and laws — but if not, not.” I’ve been reading Robert Hughes’s 2004
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John Allison on the financial crisis.
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An important editorial in The Washington Times about Elena Kagan, currently Solicitor General and nominee to the Supreme Court. (Thanks to Bob M. for the link.) The article contains a classic false alternative: “Ms. Kagan’s First Amendment work repeatedly promotes the idea that speech rights are granted by government rather than inherent in the God-given
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