Upcoming live discussion: CRT and the Education Crisis
On Wednesday at 11 Central I’ll be speaking with Deb Fillman of The Reason We Learn. Posted here.
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Philosophy
Over 500,000 views of *Nietzsche and the Nazis*
I’m very happy to see that the audio-book edition of Nietzsche and the Nazis now has more than 503K listens at YouTube. The project started as a documentary, which was then picked up by Netflix, and I then turned the script into a book. More information here about the different editions and translations.
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Stephen Hicks, “The Stain of Slavery” [Atlas Intellectuals]
In this week of the Atlas Intellectuals course on Slavery we feature Stephen Hicks’s Open College Podcast on “The Stain of Slavery.” Topics: The decline of slavery as a moral achievement // History: slavery practiced everywhere before modernity // The internal African slave society and trades // The Atlantic trade and where the slaves went
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau on censorship [from Explaining Postmodernism]
Jean-Jacques Rousseau said: “Considering the awful disorders printing has already caused in Europe, and judging the future by the progress that this evil makes day by day, one can easily predict that sovereigns will not delay in taking as many pains to banish this terrible art from their States as they once took to establish
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Comparando el desempeño económico de América del Norte y América Latina
Comparando el desempeño económico de América del Norte y América Latina Por Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D. ¿Cuál es la razón de las grandes diferencias en el desempeño económico entre las dos Américas? Traducido al Español por María Marty, 2016. Para este y más artículos en español: https://www.stephenhicks.org/espanol/ Original article in English: https://www.stephenhicks.org/2017/01/04/comparing-north-and-latin-america-economic-performance-the-good-life/
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The Miami building collapse
Two items jumped out at me in this Washington Post report about the terrible destruction of the Surfside-Miami-area building: 1. In 2018, the condo association hired a private engineering firm to examine the building: “In an October 2018 report, engineer Frank P. Morabito wrote that he had discovered “major structural damage” … 2. Despite that, a
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Urdu translation of Explaining Postmodernism — update
Professor Nazir Azad sent to me a working draft of his translation into Urdu of my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault. The image is an excerpt. I can’t read it, but I’m happy to see it. Urdu has 170 million speakers, making it the 11th most-spoken language in the world. Information
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Objectivity for *Actual* Humans [Open College podcast]
Episode 50 in my Open College with Dr. Stephen Hicks podcast series. Many rejections of objectivity assume from the outset an impossible standard for humans to achieve. Don’t do that. All audio versions of the podcast are available free at my website, YouTube, Bitchute, Apple Podcasts, SoundCloud. Some transcriptions are available via my media page
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