Join us today at Clubhouse. We joined the club — and you’re invited. Clubhouse is an invitation-only, social media platform growing by leaps and bounds since its launch in April of last year. It’s based on voice, where people around the world come together to talk, listen and learn from each other in real-time. Join […]
Tonight: Stephen Hicks asks: Is Capitalism Imperialistic and Warlike? Read More »
We joined the club — and you’re invited. Clubhouse is an invitation-only, social media platform growing by leaps and bounds since its launch in April of last year. It’s based on voice, where people around the world come together to talk, listen and learn from each other in real-time. Join our Senior Scholar, Dr. Stephen
Stephen Hicks: Is Capitalism Imperialistic and Warlike? Read More »
If you are not familiar with Professor Kors’s work, give yourself a treat and check out his lecture at Clemson University, which we feature as part of our Waterfall course on Socialism. Dr. Kors is a professor of history (emeritus) at the University of Pennsylvania and an expert in European intellectual history and co-founder of
Alan Charles Kors, “Socialism’s Legacy: Lest We Forget” [Atlas Intellectuals] Read More »
October 27: Is the USA a “Capitalist” Nation? Two narratives govern our recent thinking, debating, and blame-gaming about the economy: (1) We’re a capitalist nation, and our troubles are the fault of capitalism, (2) We’re a mixed economy, and our troubles stem from the anti-capitalist elements of the mixture. How do we first sort out
This week on the Atlas University course on Socialism we feature the Executive Summary of George Orwell’s “Review of The Totalitarian Enemy by F. Borkenau.” Orwell was clear-eyed about the dangers of authoritarian socialisms in Germany and Russia. In this 1940 review of The Totalitarian Enemy by Franz Borkenau, Orwell weighs the socialist credentials of Adolf Hitler’s
George Orwell, “Review of *The Totalitarian Enemy* by F. Borkenau” [Atlas Intellectuals] Read More »
Por Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D. Translated into Spanish by Fermin Elizalde and Maria Marty. Para más artículos en español: https://www.stephenhicks.org/espanol/. Original version in English: “13 arguments for liberal capitalism in 13 minutes.” Also Portuguese and German translations. These quick overview arguments were later developed into my primer book Liberalism Pro and Con.
13 Argumentos para el Capitalismo Liberal en 13 Minutos Read More »
In the second session from this open-to-the-public course we will be asking: Is the USA a “Capitalist” Nation? Two narratives govern our recent thinking, debating, and blame-gaming about the economy: (1) We’re a capitalist nation, so our troubles are the fault of capitalism, (2) We’re a mixed economy, and our troubles stem from the anti-capitalist
This unit on Socialism features Stephen Hicks’s “Your Sex Life Under Socialism.” Here’s the logic: “If human beings are the most important means of production and socialism means collective ownership of the means of production, then socialism means collective ownership of human beings. And if human beings are produced by sexual reproduction and socialism is
Stephen Hicks, “Your Sex Life Under Socialism” [Atlas Intellectuals] Read More »