2150 years ago, the historian of Rome wrote: Text: “In the natural, spontaneous course of events, the first [political] system to arise is monarchy, and this is followed by kingship, but it takes the deliberate correction of the defects of monarchy for it to develop into kingship. Kingship changes into its congenital vice—that is, into […]
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The techno-pessimists are wrong about our jobs and careers and the impact of robotics. The Robots Will Free Us is Episode 47 in my Open College with Dr. Stephen Hicks podcast series. “There’s a perennial divide between the technological optimists and the technological pessimists. We see that playing out right now among those assessing the
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Progress, Potential, and Possibilities https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2AwJ7_ci3A discussion of Free to Choose Medicine (FTCM) http://www.freetochoosemedicine.com. Highlights: 05:00 Gold standard of randomized control trials versus gold standard of systems thinking 15:00 2019 Science article critical of FTCM and Madden’s reply in Econ Journal Watch https://econjwatch.org/articles/science-on-fda-liberalization-a-response-to-the-status-quo-process-for-medical-treatments 19:00 FDA culture: good people in a dysfunctional process 20:00 Way of looking
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Stephen Hicks: Philosopher, Highwayman By: Kevin Ryan The philosopher navigates from the passenger seat of our Mazda CX-3 as we cross Stone Arch Bridge in deepening afternoon, over the North Mississippi with its polluted blue water. “Everything is connected,” he says. “Everything has implications.” When he talks, he floats his hands. Throughout the day, random
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10. SoHo debate quotes: Quine, Kuhn, Feyerabend, and Lentricchia. Follow-up to my debate with Thaddeus Russell. 9. Frightened Children Won’t Solve the World’s Problems. With link to my Wall Street Journal article, “Global Problems Are Too Big for Little Kids.” 8. Libertarian Social Justice? Hicks and Horwitz. At Friedman 8 conference. 7. “The Stain of Slavery”
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For use in my courses, additions to my Texts in Philosophy page. Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from the Underground (1864). Thomas Hobbes, “Of the Difference of Manners,” from Leviathan (1651). John Hospers, “Justice versus Social Justice” (1985). Elbert Hubbard, “A Message to Garcia” (1914). David Ross, “The London Plague of 1665” (no date). Thucydides, “Pericles’ Funeral Oration,” from
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Freud saw Mommy kissing Santa ClausUnderneath the mistletoe last night.It surely was a dreamHe thought, brought on by curdled cream.Now therapy is called forPsycho-analytically. [With apologies to the Jackson Five.]
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Ignasi Boltó, a.k.a. the Spanish Libertarian, asked me eleven questions for his YouTube channel. Here is the transcript: Ignasi Bolto: Hello, friends from the internet. It’s Ignasi from Spanish Libertarian. Today we’re making another interview in English. I know most of you usually speak in Spanish, but we also like to give content in other language. Also,