Lateral Conversations — Amarque interviews me on campus unrest and rhetoric

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German philosopher Tom Amarque interviewed me about campus unrest, language and rhetoric, and the great modern versus postmodern debate. “Stephen Hicks is a Professor of Philosophy and author of the very good book Explaining Postmodernism. Logically, we talk a lot about the history, aspects, traits and problems of postmodernism. You can find other conversations with the […]

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Whose Bathroom Is It, Anyway? [Good Life series]

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What happens when you mix politics, bathrooms, and sexuality? Let the joking begin. A politician walks into a transgender bar. [Fill in the blank here.] Afterwards, he tries to explain: “I really only wanted to use the bathroom.” Ha ha. But the serious business is the busybody politicians in North Carolina and Tennessee who have

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Capitalism versus the Philosophers: An Interview with Stephen Hicks

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This interview was published at FEE in abridged form as Capitalism versus the Philosophers: An Interview with Stephen Hicks. Abstract: A market-friendly philosopher takes on postmodernists, Ayn Rand, Michel Foucault, and Fifty Shades of Grey. Here is the unabridged version, which is also posted at interviewer Grégoire Canlorbe’s site. Interview with philosopher Stephen Hicks Hicks is

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Free Market Road Show in Chicago — tomorrow

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I’ll be speaking tomorrow in Chicago at the FMRS event, along with Matt Kibbe (President and Chief Community Organizer, Free the People) and Barbara Kolm (President, Friedrich A. v. Hayek Institute). The event is sponsored by the Austrian Economics Center, and its theme is this: The 2017 FMRS brings together leading business people, outstanding scholars,

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