Stephen Hicks

Ryan Faulkner-Hogg and I had three long-form conversations about Nietzsche’s intellectual journey, one conversation on his early activities, one on the middle works, and one on his later life. At Atlas Geographica channel, all three conversations are integrated into a three-hour uber-conversation: Related: * Nietzsche and the Nazis.* Egoism in Nietzsche and Rand.

The Scandinavian nations are consistently in the top 10% most free-market capitalist nations, and more so than the USA which is currently ranked 25th.  That’s been the case for the last generation of rankings in, e.g., this Index of Economic Freedom. The Index ranks 177 nations around the world. That means the top 18 nations

Also: What Nietzsche contributed to conflict and power philosophies. The full interview is here:

For use in my courses, additions to my Texts in Philosophy page. Bible, Genesis 17-22 on Abraham, Lot, Sarah, Isaac, Hagar, and Ishmael (c. 500s BCE). Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance” (1841). James Madison, A Memorial and Remonstrance (1785; on separating religion and state). Plato, “The Allegory of the Cave” (360 BCE) [HTML].

Two strong stories. Read to the end for the kicker. Story One: Years ago, Al Capone virtually owned Chicago. Capone was notorious for enmeshing the Windy City in everything from bootlegged booze and prostitution to murder. Capone had a lawyer nicknamed “Easy Eddie.” Eddie was very good — his skill at legal maneuvering kept Big

My answers to the question: No, No, and Yes. 10-minute talk at the Forum da Liberdade in Brazil, April 2022. My co-discussants were The Spectator‘s Melissa Chen and political science professor João Pereira Coutinho. Excerpts from my remarks start at the 6-minute mark in this video: Related: My talk on the roots of the culture

Consider these two contrasting principles of education: Bildung is experiencing and acting in the world freely and in personal way through a process of self-education without formal schooling. Typical schooling: acting in a controlled and impersonal environment in a directed-by-others process. Bildung was developed most in 19th-century Germany, most significantly by Wilhelm von Humboldt. It