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Jeffrey Hummel on Slavery as Economic “Deadweight Loss” [Atlas Intellectuals]

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In this unit of the Atlas Intellectuals course on Slavery: Was slavery economically negative, not only for the slaves but the slaveowners and/or slave societies in general? Two broad positions have dominated the history of economic thought with respect to chattel slavery. A Fine coverage in Jeffrey Hummel on Slavery as Economic “Deadweight Loss”. Jeffrey […]

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Will Knowland (fired from Eton) interviews Stephen Hicks

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I was interviewed by Will Knowland, who was sacked from his teaching position at England’s prestigious Eton College over a Woke-controversial lecture. Our theme: Educate or Indoctrinate? Here’s a two-minute excerpt: Is everything just power? And here is the full interview (list of questions and topics is below): (Here are two pieces of journalism on

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Is CRT only an academic theory in some law schools?

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Three quick steps: Critical Theory in general was developed by academics in the mid-1900s. Sub-species were developed in the late 1900s, among them Critical Legal Theory, Critical Race Theory, Critical Feminist Theory, and more. Shortly thereafter, an increase in academic work on Critical Theory applied to education. That culminates in these books published early 2000s:

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*Nietzsche and the Nazis* — with timestamping

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Timestamping is now done for the audiobook edition. Nietzsche and the Nazis: A Personal View was first produced as a documentary in 2006. The book version was published in 2010. Translations are available into Farsi, Spanish, Polish, Russian, and a few more languages. Table of Contents: Part 1. Introduction: Philosophy and History [YouTube] [5 minutes]

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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. Para más artículos en español sobre Educación y Filosofía: https://www.stephenhicks.org/espanol/. Original article in English: “When Altruism becomes Pathological” (https://www.stephenhicks.org/2018/04/03/when-altruism-becomes-pathological/).

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Atheist and Theist Sacrificers — two sides of the same coin

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The atheist socialist Eric Hobsbawm on the deaths of millions under the Marxists in the Soviet Union: “In 1994, he shocked readers of the Times Literary Supplement when, in an interview with Michael Ignatieff, he said that the deaths of millions of Soviet citizens under Stalin, although ‘probably excessive,’ would have been worth it if

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What Business Ethics Can Learn from Entrepreneurship — audio version

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Here’s a 21-minute audiobook version of my “What Business Ethics Can Learn from Entrepreneurship,” first published in print in The Journal of Private Enterprise. Other audio editions: Article: “Egoism in Nietzsche and Rand,” (JARS, 2009). Book: Nietzsche and the Nazis (Ockham’s Razor, 2010). Review: Tara Smith’s Ayn Rand’s Normative Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 2006).

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