Schopenhauer weighs in
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Tacitus: Freedom is rare
“Seldom are men blessed with times in which they may think what they like, and say what they think.” —Tacitus, Roman historian More at my Quotations page: https://www.stephenhicks.org/quotations/
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The Murshak conversation: paradox of tolerance, the objective-subjective split, Metamodernism, and more
Alex Murshak: “I had the pleasure of sharing mind space with Stephen Hicks (@SRCHicks) to discuss his book Explaining Postmodernism, postmodern epistemology, power, the paradox of tolerance, the objective-subjective split, Metamodernism, and more …” Audio at Soundcloud.
Violent Politics — The Lesson of Marxist Philosophy [Open College transcript]
We’re now posting serially at thinkspot the transcripts of my Open College podcasts. Here’s the second: OC2: Violent Politics — The Lesson of Marxist Philosophy “For Marxism, the democratic process is a pointless sham.” Audio versions of the podcast are available free at my website, YouTube, Bitchute, Apple Podcasts, SoundCloud. To cover additional production costs, the
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Nietzsche vs. Rand on Altruism and Egoism
Two-minute trailer for my June livestream lectures: Join me in this 3-session course co-organized by thinkspot and Ayn Rand Center Latin America. * Session 1: June, Saturday 20th, 12-1 pm Central. On Altruism: Both Nietzsche and Rand are vehement opponents of altruism. Why? And in what ways are their critiques similar and different — and
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Multiversity critique of my *Explaining Postmodernism*
Three smart young people critique my book in this extended YouTube conversation. I enjoyed listening, criticisms and all, as they present both sides of the arguments, intelligently assess their strengths and weaknesses, and state forthrightly their own conclusions. “Explaining Stephen Hicks: Jordan Peterson and ‘Postmodern Neo-Marxism’?” In a forthcoming Open College podcast, I’ll respond to
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History education’s decline — Kaiser’s account
“Why Students Have Turned Away from History” by Professor David Kaiser: “Harvard and Radcliffe together had graduated about 270 history majors in 1965, with about 30 full-time history faculty. In 2017 the department had 47 full-time members and graduated 45 history majors.” Trends are the same at other leading universities. Why?
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Lesley Gore’s “You Don’t Own Me” (1964)
What a good song — and new to me: Lesley Gore’s “You Don’t Own Me”: You don’t own me I’m not just one of your many toys You don’t own me Don’t say I can’t go with other boys And don’t tell me what to do Don’t tell me what to say And please, when
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