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 »
The audiobook of the Expanded Edition of my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault is now available at Audible and iTunes: Audible iTunes The narrator is Scott R. Smith. Listening length is 7 hours and 23 minutes. The expanded edition includes my Free Speech and Postmodernism and From Modern to Postmodern Art: Why Art Became Ugly essays. Images
*Explaining Postmodernism* audiobook now available Read More »
I like this photograph. It reminds me that no matter how fractious our current political mood is, we live in civilized times. Democratic-republics are peaceful in an important respect: Transfers of power rarely require the death of the current top office holder. Carter, Bush 1, Clinton, Bush 2, and Obama are still alive, and each
Living ex-presidents and democratic health Read More »
The well-prepared Ricardo Lopes from Portugal interviewed me on the charged question of Nietzsche’s relationship to the National Socialists.
Dissenter interview on Nietzsche, the Nazis, and the Pomo Read More »
Episode 2 in my Open College with Dr. Stephen Hicks podcast series. Audio link: iTunes Soundcloud Stitcher Topics and times: History // Three options: coincidence, unintended consequences, intended // Quoting Marx, Engels, Lenin, Dzerzhinsky, Trotsky, Hobsbawm // Environmental determinism in Marxism // Plasticity of human nature in Marxism // Economic circumstances as fundamental social-environmental forces //
Violent Politics—the Lesson of Marxist *Philosophy* [Open College series] Read More »