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Ayn Rand, “What is Capitalism?” [Atlas Intellectuals]

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This week in the Atlas Intellectuals course on Capitalism we consider Ayn Rand´s controversial “What is Capitalism?” In this 1965 essay, first published in The Objectivist Newsletter and later in Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, Rand presents her philosophical and especially moral argument for capitalism. The full course: https://www.atlassociety.org/course/capitalism. Other Atlas Intellectuals courses on Socialism, Objectivity, Money, Robotics, and […]

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Racial minorities vs. Critical Race Theory

4 Comments / Culture, Ethics / Stephen Hicks

“The idea that America is fundamentally flawed because some people have a [racist] problem in their minds, that’s a recipe to keep you in poverty and unhappiness for the rest of your life,” said Juan Saldivar, a father of a Southlake student, to explain his opposition to restructuring Southlake schools around ‘systemic racism.’ “My parents

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The mean streets and the complete man

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The modern hero.

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The Bakke affirmative action case

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Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (438 U.S. 265) is a landmark decision about affirmative action decided in 1978 by the US Supreme Court. It upheld the lower court’s affirming that Allan Bakke should be admitted to UCD’s medical school and that racial quotas were unconstitutional but also upheld affirmative action, allowing race

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Educación Liberal y Sus Críticas Posmodernas

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Por Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D. Traducido al Español por Fermin Elizalde, 2020. (Original English.) Stephen R. C. Hicks es Profesor en Filosofía en la Universidad de Rockford. Su libro más reciente es Explicando el Postmodernismo: Escepticismo y Socialismo Desde Rousseau a Foucault (Ockham’s Razor, 2011). Es una obviedad decir que la educación está politizada.

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The Real Scrooge [Open College transcripts]

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We’re posting the transcripts of my Open College podcasts. Most are available only to subscribers, but here for the holiday season is the thirtieth, on Scrooge’s hero’s journey: To speak of pride, friendship, liberality, and an overarching wisdom about how they all contribute to a fully self-realized life—all of that is to make Dickens’s Scrooge

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Arachne vs. Athena: Moral Philosophy Begins [Open College podcast]

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Let me tell you a bed-time story that involves humans and gods and present a philosophical question dating back a few thousand of years: The story of Arachne and Athena …

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Hicks on “Can socialism be democratic?” [Waterfall]

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The second Waterfall course: Socialism. Examine the aspirations, arguments, strategies, and disasters of socialist theory and practice—as well as explore the strongest criticisms of socialism. Authors include Ayn Rand, Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Robert Heilbroner, Alan Charles Kors, George Orwell, Michael Harrington, Ludwig von Mises, Steven Horwitz, and C.S. Lewis. This week’s Waterfall features my

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