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Christian Socialism and C. S. Lewis [Open College series]

2 Comments / Philosophy, Religion / Stephen Hicks

A new episode of my podcast series, produced by Possibly Correct out of Toronto. Audio: iTunes Stitcher YouTube Topics: Should Christians be socialists, and was C.S. Lewis a socialist? // Mere Christianity‘s themes // Liberal-libertarian principles — free-market economics and property rights, competence to run your own life, self-responsibility, self-respect and dignity for all, universalism […]

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Ph.D. philosophers review Explaining Postmodernism

News, Philosophy / Stephen Hicks

Professional philosophers’ responses to the book. Nine reviews in total — six very positive, two overall positive, and one mixed. * Professor Curtis Hancock in The Review of Metaphysics (and can be read online here). * Professor Steven M. Sanders in Reason Papers. * Professor Gary Jason in Liberty (or PDF here.) * Dr. David

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Love Is a Fallacy (by Max Shulman)

4 Comments / Humor, Logic / Stephen Hicks

Love Is a Fallacy By Max Shulman Max Shulman (1919–1988) was an American humorist. He graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1942 and served in the military in World War II. His writing career included several collections of short stories and a Broadway play, “The Tender Trap,” which was later made into a movie.

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“We are living in terrible times for women”

2 Comments / Philosophy / Stephen Hicks

Andrea-Dworkinism is alive in 2019. One of her followers, writing in The Guardian, makes this huge claim: “We are living in terrible times for women.” It’s true that bad things happen to women. Yet bad things happen to people pretty much however you group them, and this claim is a general indictment of the whole

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On honesty, Stalin’s killings, and Western intellectuals (anecdote)

1 Comment / History / Stephen Hicks

Hollywood screenwriter Anna Louise Strong was basically a Communist propagandist. When in 1956 Khrushchev “revealed” Stalin’s crimes, Strong suffered a mental breakdown over the “betrayal.” Later she confessed: “We knew all these things for twenty-five years, and I kept silent for the cause of socialism. What am I supposed to say?” (Which I connect to

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Movement splits and hatreds — a music example

3 Comments / Music, Psychology / Stephen Hicks

Most movements consistently exhibit a destructive social psychology. The dynamic is this: a movement’s members begin with a huge amount in common — the same high talent, goals, and passions. But any difference, sometimes minor, sets them against each other ferociously and irreparably. The dynamic crops up in many movements across history — political (e.g.,

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Does capitalism lead to a monopoly economy?

6 Comments / Business Ethics, Economics, Politics / Stephen Hicks

Capitalism versus the Philosophers: An Interview with Stephen Hicks was published at The Foundation for Economic Education. Grégoire Canlorbe, a French intellectual entrepreneur residing in Paris conducted the interview. An excerpt follows. Grégoire Canlorbe: According to a popular opinion, left to its own devices, capitalism inevitably tends to a monopoly economy — an economy in

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