History

Hicks on First-Generation Postmodernism [In Case You Missed It]

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Postmodernism Part 1 by Stephen Hicks. This is the original 1998 lecture that led to the now-classic Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault. Professor Hicks argues that first-generation postmodernism is best understood as a rhetorical strategy of intellectuals and academics on the far-Left of the political spectrum to the failure of socialism. […]

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Mis artículos en español (My articles in Spanish): “Cuando el Altruismo se vuelve patológico”

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Cuando el Altruismo se vuelve patológico Por Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D. ¿Quién es más propenso a engañar? ¿Aquellos que practican deportes individuales o aquellos que practican deportes en equipo? Traducido al Español por María Marty, 2016. English: “When Altruism Becomes Pathological”.

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Death by doctor — the king’s medical treatment

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Source: Nathan Belofsky, Strange Medicine: A Shocking History of Real Medical Practices Through the Ages (Penguin, 2013), p. 116. Online at Google Books. [If only the goat had been from West India. Classic mistake.] But seriously: Why? The best theories, diligently applied: We’ve read the texts, with their mix of ancient traditions, magic, and alchemy.

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Dr. Otto Dietrich, Hitler’s National Press Director [on Kant]

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Dietrich was a Ph.D. in Political Science from Freiburg University (where later Martin Heidegger was professor of philosophy). In a 1934 lecture delivered at the University of Köln, Dietrich bases National Socialist political philosophy directly upon the philosophy of Kant, Fichte, and Hegel. A key theme of the lecture is Universalism versus Individualism, where individualism

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When Adolf joined the Party

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Adolf Hitler joined the Nazi party after being inspired by Gottfried Feder’s 1919 speech about the new party’s ideals. An indication of those ideals is in Feder’s 1919 publication, Manifesto for the Abolition of Enslavement to Interest on Money. Here’s an excerpt from (Nazi sympathizer) Hadding Scott’s translation of Feder’s manifesto: “The abolition of enslavement

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Alan Charles Kors, “Socialism’s Legacy: Lest We Forget” [Atlas Intellectuals]

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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

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