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Academic Questions publication: “Liberal Education and Its Postmodern Critics”

My article “Liberal Education and Its Postmodern Critics,” published in the scholarly journal Academic Questions, is now available here. From the opening: It is a truism to say that education is politicized. Yet my goal here is to show that politicized battles over education are mostly not about politics but about philosophy. Policy battles are […]

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1776 — what a year in publishing

2 Comments / Philosophy / Stephen Hicks

These books were published in 1776: Thomas Paine, Common Sense Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Adam Smith, On the Wealth of Nations Thomas Jefferson et al., The Declaration of Independence Denis Diderot, Encyclopédie (published in its entirety for first time) David Hume, Autobiography Also in 1776, in Paris Antoine Laurent Lavoisier

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Capitalism is survival of the unfittest

2 Comments / Economics / Stephen Hicks

If one is poor or handicapped, one wants to be in a rich country. To see why, first ask: What kind of society most generates riches – tribal, feudal, socialist, dictatorial, or capitalist? Free-market societies generate huge amounts of capital, and it is precisely that capital that enables the least fit among us to survive and

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Educación Liberal y Sus Críticas Posmodernas

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Por Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D. Traducido al Español por Fermin Elizalde, 2020. (Original English.) Stephen R. C. Hicks es Profesor en Filosofía en la Universidad de Rockford. Su libro más reciente es Explicando el Postmodernismo: Escepticismo y Socialismo Desde Rousseau a Foucault (Ockham’s Razor, 2011). Es una obviedad decir que la educación está politizada.

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The Friendly Neighborhood Libertarian interview

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Link at the UConn site. “Isadore Johnson is a junior economics and political science major at the University of Connecticut. He’s the co-founder of UConn’s chapter of Young Americans For Liberty, is a local coordinator for Students for Liberty, and writes for various news outlets in his spare time when he’s not climbing. “Isadore interviews

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Voluntary submission to authority

4 Comments / Philosophy / Stephen Hicks

On who holds the real power: “I should like merely to understand how it happens that so many men, so many villages, so many cities, so many nations, sometimes suffer under a single tyrant who has no other power than the power they give him.” That’s from Etienne de la Boétie (1530-1563) in his Discourse

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On the fifth day, God created the fierce deep-sea lizard

Leave a Comment / Religion, Science / Stephen Hicks

I’d like to know what was in his mind at that moment. Bathysaurus ferox (literally meaning “fierce deep-sea lizard”) lives by “burying itself on the deep seafloor, 3,300 to 8,200 feet (1,000 to 2,500 m) below the water’s surface. When unsuspecting prey swims by, B. ferox darts out of the sediment and snatches up the meal in its formidable

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Los Conservadores NO Son Capitalistas de Libre-Mercado

1 Comment / Economics, Español, Philosophy, Politics / Fermin Elizalde

Stephen R. C. Hicks Traducido al Español por Fermín Elizalde. Navegar en la red y otros lugares es una manera fácil de identificar el conservadurismo con políticas de libre mercado. Se propone una política de liberalización económica, los periodistas la etiquetarán como una política “conservadora” y los comentaristas, dependiendo de su origen, lamentarán o celebrarán

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