Audio links: iTunes Stitcher YouTube Topics: The “Dark” Ages or The “Brilliant” Ages? // Chronology // Was there a Dark Age? // Why did the activity pick up after the year 1000? // Roger Bacon and Thomas Aquinas // Why is the debate significant today? // The verdict on Christianity // The verdict on modernity and the Enlightenment // Why […]
Conservatives: Get Over the Dark Ages [Open College series] Read More »
I’ll be speaking at the Movimento Brasil Livre conference in São Paulo at 4 p.m. My topic is “Postmodernism’s Influence on the Contemporary Left”: What is postmodernism, and why is it so prevalent? How has it evolved and devolved over the last generation — especially among left intellectual and activist movements? Here’s some background on
Lecture in São Paulo, Brazil, November 24 Read More »
Episode 4 in my Open College with Dr. Stephen Hicks podcast series. Audio links: iTunes Stitcher YouTube Topics: Our contemporary pessimists and cynics // Gray, Rorty, and Foucault // The Enlightenment and its promises // How to assess the Enlightenment era // Data // Postmodernism // Real concerns and trade-offs versus pessimism Transcription: Forthcoming Sources: Michel
“The Dim Ruins of the Enlightenment” [Open College series] Read More »
The chart indicates that about fourteen adult males are incarcerated for every adult female who is. Also, on lengths of sentences: “males received 12 percent longer prison terms than females after ‘controlling for the offense level, criminal history, district, and offense type.’” Follow-up questions: 1. Do males collectively commit 14 times the number of crimes
Male and female incarceration rates in the USA Read More »
I’ll be in their Dallas studio to discuss postmodernism and its evolving variants. My understanding is that the discussion will be live at 2:45 p.m. CT but also recorded for later YouTube release. Related: Previous episodes of Beck’s podcast. The new audiobook of my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault: Audible, iTunes. More
On Glenn Beck’s show — Friday, November 9 Read More »
The third episode in my Open College with Dr. Stephen Hicks podcast series. Audio links: iTunes. Soundcloud. Stitcher. YouTube. Topics and times: Conceptual clarification: “conservative,” “revolutionary,” “liberal” // Donald Trump versus Charles Koch // Robert Bork, Irving Kristol, Russell Kirk, Pat Buchanan, and Alexander Solzhenitsyn // Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek, and Ayn Rand // Why
Conservatives Are *Not* Free-market Capitalists [Open College series] Read More »
The newest Kaizen Weekly Review is out. Readings on: * Should CEOs speak up on social issues? * 8 things every person should do before 8:00 a.m. * The rise and fall of Argentina. * How China may be stepping back from the free-market, pro-business policies that transformed it into the world’s No. 2 economy.
CEE’s *Kaizen Review* — October edition Read More »
The next three episodes are into production: “The Dim Ruins of the Enlightenment” Conservatives: Get Over the Dark Ages Nietzsche’s Sister and The Will to Power They’ll be released on Mondays in November.
Coming Soon on *Open College with Stephen Hicks* Read More »