I’ve seen four hypotheses advanced: 1. Natural cycles of drought: Throughout its history, Australia has had seasons of unusually high temperatures and numbers of fires. 2. Arson: So far, over 180 arrested for arson, including this guy. 3. Anti-human-management policies: Deadwood not removed, fire breaks allowed to grow over, and firefighters’ access to them blocked. […]
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“By the mid-fifteenth century crimes subject to the death penalty … included the following: rebellion, fraud, bigamy, incest, arson, theft, adultery, carrying off a woman against her will, blasphemy, moving signs of property boundaries, attacking someone, high treason, child murder, using dishonest weights and measures, murder, counterfeiting, rape, attempted suicide,* striking someone to death, converting
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My followers at thinkspot can join me on Saturday, January 18th at 12:00 PM Central Time for my next livestream Q&A session. Ask me anything about philosophy and my related areas of expertise, as well as any follow-up questions from my “There Are No Snowflakes” livestream lecture. This is a rescheduling of my cancelled January
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In March ‘ll be co-speaking with the dynamic Gloria Alvarez. More information at the True Arrow Events site, and tickets for the Hicks-Alvarez event are here. Event Schedule: 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm: Professor Hicks and Gloria Alvarez, audience Q&A, followed by book signing. Join world-renowned philosopher Dr. Stephen Hicks (Canadian-American) and the amazing Gloria
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[Grégoire Canlorbe is a French intellectual entrepreneur. He currently resides in Paris. He interviewed me for The Foundation for Economic Education. Excerpt below:] Grégoire Canlorbe: Both Rand and Nietzsche vehemently despise the ancestral notion of “Common Good”, dating back at least to Aristotle. Nietzsche eloquently and provocatively sums up his grievances against it in paragraph 43
Do Rand and Nietzsche both despise “Common Good”? Read More »
Happy about this: My Explaining Postmodernism came out in an Australian edition in 2019 and was
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For our ongoing contest, alert reader George King sent me this libido-sapper from Jean-François Lyotard’s 1974 Libidinal Economy. 355 words: “We should not continue to confuse the closure of representation, that sarcastic discovery, that sham dropping of the scales from our eyes, by those thinkers who come and tell us: what is outside is really
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