ON Wednesday, September 30, I’ll be in a discussion hosted by Dave Rubin and Mark Skousen. From the description: “Dave Rubin and Mark Skousen, Founder of FreedomFest, will co-host four panel discussions. The Atlas Society’s Senior Scholar, Stephen Hicks, Ph.D., will share his philosophical perspective on solutions to social unrest, racism, the economic shutdown, and […]
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The second Waterfall course: Socialism. Examine the aspirations, arguments, strategies, and disasters of socialist theory and practice—as well as explore the strongest criticisms of socialism. Authors include Ayn Rand, Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Robert Heilbroner, Alan Charles Kors, George Orwell, Michael Harrington, Ludwig von Mises, Steven Horwitz, and C.S. Lewis. This week’s Waterfall features my
Hicks on “Can socialism be democratic?” [Waterfall] Read More »
My Ancestry DNA results say I’m 98% British Isles mongrel – a roughly equal mix of Welsh, English, Scottish, and Irish. But also 2% Scandinavian. I therefore declare to the world that henceforth I self-identify as “Viking.”
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I’m happy to announce that RIPOL Class Publishing of Moscow, Russia will be producing a Russian edition of the Expanded Edition of Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault. The translation is being done now and the finished product will be published in 2021. The book’s thesis: The failure of epistemology made postmodernism possible,
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22 Questions about Life, Philosophy, Love, and Art. Join me for the Avant-Première of my film Philosophy for Real Life, which will take place at thinkspot on October 3rd at 12 pm Central, followed by a live Q&A session. Much thanks to producer Charlie Zagoren and his team. This event is free for my subscribers.
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Waterfall is a guided series of courses for everyone interested in issues upon which Objectivism has something distinctive and important to say. The second course: Socialism. Examine the aspirations, arguments, strategies, and disasters of socialist theory and practice—as well as explore the strongest criticisms of socialism. Authors include Ayn Rand, Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Robert
Professor Kors’s classic lecture: “Socialism’s Legacy” [Waterfall] Read More »
From Ukraine, Roman Skaskiw asks: “One of my great fears is that the postmodernists, like the Bolsheviks, are correct in prioritizing power over meaning. Those who believe in meaning exhaust themselves making arguments to people who do not believe in truth — modernist argument against a post-modernist ideology. What if a thousand slogans and bad
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Old-time racists and sexists said: “Clear thinking — it’s not for woman, minorities, and gays.” Social-Justice Wokists today say: “Exactly!!” Rigorous thinking, according to some, is a virtue that leads to safe high-voltage electrical systems, pharmaceutical doses that are precisely calibrated, and bridges that stay up. Not so, says engineering Professor Donna Riley. Rather it
“Can women and minorities think rigorously?” The SJW say “No” Read More »