Full interview in June 2021. We discussed Dr. Rectenwald’s Springtime for Snowflakes, along with my Explaining Postmodernism, and this series of topics: 00:00 Intro 00:51 Is the current contemporary left Rousseauian? 03:56 Anti-reason, anti-truth movement 06:39 Postmodernism as a crisis of faith in Marxism 12:05 Herbert Marcuse & the Frankfurt School 14:13 Where are we […]
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With interspersed video excerpts from KImberlé Crenshaw, Robin DiAngelo, and Grievance Studies hoaxters Helen Pluckrose, James Lindsay, and Peter Boghossian — interviewer Mike Nayna asks me about Critical Theory — what was imported from Freud, the Frankfurt School, the subversion of cognitive theory, and how was it applied to CRT. 11-minute excerpt: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbeCQis1kh7fEaOGPhG96SA Full interview
“Stephen Hicks: The Leftist Racism Industry” Read More »
This week we are introducing a new Atlas Intellectuals course on Slavery. Let’s see this DML on Frederick Douglass: “Socialism Is Slavery Of All To All” After escaping from slavery in Maryland, Douglass became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, gaining prestige for his oratory and critical writing against
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“All economists—monetarists, Keynesians, or what-not—recognize that there is such a thing as market failure. I believe that what distinguishes economists is not whether they recognize market failure, but how much importance they attach to government failure, especially when government seeks to remedy what are said to be market failures. That difference in turn is related
Friedman on market *and* government failures — which is worse? Read More »
A page dedicated to my articles and books translated into Spanish. https://www.stephenhicks.org/espanol/ Aquí encontrarán algunos de mis artículos traducidos al español. https://www.stephenhicks.org/espanol/
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Amusing story about how best to corrupt someone: The Devil was once crossing a desert and came upon a remote spot where a holy hermit was being tormented by a some demons trying to disturb his equanimity. They tried the smells of tasty food and drink, offered him wealth and sexual pleasures, but the hermit
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Excerpt from Professor Raymond Tallis’s review of Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont, Intellectual Impostures: Postmodern Philosophers’ Abuse of Science (London: Profile Books, 1998). Also translated as Fashionable Nonsense. “Eventually the postmodern Theorists started to attract the attention of experts in the disciplines into which they had strayed. Linguists looked at their linguistics and found it littered
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I’m happy that Faro Editorial, out of Brazil has published Guerra cultural: Como o pós-modernismo criou uma narrativa de desconstrução do ocidente. (Culture War: How Postmodernism Created a Narrative of Deconstruction of the West). It’s a new translation of my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault, the thesis of which is: The
New: Brazilian Portuguese translation of *Explaining Postmodernism* Read More »