Traditional sex roles have it that the woman looks after the family hearth, tending the cooking and raising the children, while the man goes off to hunt and fight. Many explanations can be offered for these assigned roles, but to my knowledge Sigmund Freud has the most, uummmm, interesting explanation for why men are not […]
The best footnote ever: Freud on putting out fires Read More »
In Part 3, Chapter 5, of The Fountainhead, Dominique Francon has gone to Clayton, a faded town in Ohio, where architect Howard Roark is working on a department store. She cannot get over the fact that Roark has to work “in some nameless hole of a place” after having built skyscrapers in New York. “Roark,
Dominique and Roark in Clayton, Ohio [80th Anniversary of *The Fountainhead*] Read More »
Reprising this opening to my essay “How Can We Make Entrepreneurs?”: “As a kid, Steve Jobs hated school. Many of us can relate, even if we are not brilliant business innovators. School bored the young Jobs painfully, and he reacted by engaging in acts of disobedience and defiance. ‘I was pretty bored in school,’ he
Why Steve Jobs hated school, and how not to sabotage young future entrepreneurs Read More »
Reprising this earlier post about Only a God Can Save Us, and my 40-minute interview with van Davis about his documentary on philosopher Martin Heidegger’s involvement with National Socialism: Part 1: Part 2 is here: See also Chapter Three of Explaining Postmodernism. Related:
Interview with director Jeffrey van Davis on Heidegger and Nazism Read More »
Quince argumentos para el Capitalismo Liberal: Este post va a formar parte de una serie de argumentos del libro “Liberalism: Pro & Con” de Stephen Hicks en español. Pueden encontrar todos los argumentos que serán publicados en orden en el siguiente link: Liberalism: Pro & Con en español. EN CONTRA Argumento 6: Las sociedades Capitalistas
Las sociedades Capitalistas Liberales son aburridas [Liberalism: Pro & Con en Español] Read More »
Join The Atlas Society for a special webinar discussion with Senior Scholar, Dr. Stephen Hicks and Senior Fellow Robert Tracinski on Wednesday, March 15 @ 2 PM PT / 5 PM ET where the duo will discuss the philosophy of history and explain the questions: What causes historical change? What’s the role of ideas, knowledge institutions, or
Today: The Philosophy of History with Stephen Hicks & Robert Tracinski Read More »
Related: Close readings of authoritarian thinkers in the Philosophers, Explained series: Hegel, Gentile and Mussolini, Marx and Engels, Heidegger, Dugin, Nietzsche.
The Rise of Authoritarianism Panel [In case you missed it] Read More »
33-minute lecture delivered by Dr. Stephen Hicks at the Museum of World War II, December 2022: Related: Martin Heidegger (“What Is Metaphysics?”) and Alexander Dugin (“Fascism—Borderless and Red”) in the Philosophers, Explained series.