13 Argumentos para el Capitalismo Liberal en 13 Minutos

Por Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D. Translated into Spanish by Fermin Elizalde and Maria Marty. Para más artículos en español: https://www.stephenhicks.org/espanol/. Original version in English: “13 arguments for liberal capitalism in 13 minutes.” Also Portuguese and German translations. These quick overview arguments were later developed into my primer book Liberalism Pro and Con.

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Fear, Paternalism, and Rousseau’s Return: A Conversation with Dr. Stephen Hicks

Today I’ll be recording a three-way conversation with Engineering Politics and Return to Reason on this topic: Fear, Paternalism, and Rousseau’s Return: A Conversation with Dr. Stephen Hicks The conversation will be recorded and posted soon on CEE Video Channel at YouTube and other platforms.

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Employers pushing back against Cancel Culture

From a private correspondence: Quite frankly the “elite schools” are producing a raft of useless employees. These graduates come from an environment where dissent and opposing views are not only crushed, the person who expresses them becomes a pariah. I serve on the board of directors of an executive recruiting firm with a 40-year history.

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Is the USA a “Capitalist” Nation? [Session 2 of “The Capitalism Course” by Dr. Stephen Hicks]

In the second session from this open-to-the-public course we will be asking: Is the USA a “Capitalist” Nation? Two narratives govern our recent thinking, debating, and blame-gaming about the economy: (1) We’re a capitalist nation, so our troubles are the fault of capitalism, (2) We’re a mixed economy, and our troubles stem from the anti-capitalist

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Stephen Hicks, “Your Sex Life Under Socialism” [Atlas Intellectuals]

This unit on Socialism features Stephen Hicks’s “Your Sex Life Under Socialism.” Here’s the logic: “If human beings are the most important means of production and socialism means collective ownership of the means of production, then socialism means collective ownership of human beings. And if human beings are produced by sexual reproduction and socialism is

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The youthful Nietzsche’s intellectual context

The intellectual world of the 1800s and its influence upon the young Friedrich Nietzsche. A 10-minute clip from the Faulkner-Hogg interview: Nietzsche’s precociousness, the priority of biology or philosophy, evolution, the roots of ethics, cognitive subjectivism, and religion’s precariousness after Hume, Kant, Schopenhauer, and Kierkegaard. YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC-niLfhTAk Also at YouTube: This audiobook edition of

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