Philosophy

Lateral Conversations — Amarque interviews me on campus unrest and rhetoric

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German philosopher Tom Amarque interviewed me about campus unrest, language and rhetoric, and the great modern versus postmodern debate. “Stephen Hicks is a Professor of Philosophy and author of the very good book Explaining Postmodernism. Logically, we talk a lot about the history, aspects, traits and problems of postmodernism. You can find other conversations with the […]

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Whose Bathroom Is It, Anyway? [Good Life series]

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What happens when you mix politics, bathrooms, and sexuality? Let the joking begin. A politician walks into a transgender bar. [Fill in the blank here.] Afterwards, he tries to explain: “I really only wanted to use the bathroom.” Ha ha. But the serious business is the busybody politicians in North Carolina and Tennessee who have

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Capitalism versus the Philosophers: An Interview with Stephen Hicks

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This interview was published at FEE in abridged form as Capitalism versus the Philosophers: An Interview with Stephen Hicks. Abstract: A market-friendly philosopher takes on postmodernists, Ayn Rand, Michel Foucault, and Fifty Shades of Grey. Here is the unabridged version, which is also posted at interviewer Grégoire Canlorbe’s site. Interview with philosopher Stephen Hicks Hicks is

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Igor Stravinsky’s first impression of the United States

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From his autobiography, about his first trip to America in 1925: “Without stopping to describe my visual impressions on landing in New York — skyscrapers, traffic, lights, Negroes, cinemas, theatres, in fact all that rouses the curiosity of foreigners, and very rightly so — I want to begin by bearing witness as a musician to

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Johann Herder as prophet of the contemporary university

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[Herder (1744-1802) was an early Counter-Enlightenment voice calling for group identity politics and value relativism, along with a rejection of cultural appropriation and an embrace of zero-sum cultural conflict. The following is excerpted from Explaining Postmodernism.] Herder on multicultural relativism Sometimes called the “German Rousseau,”[1] Johann Herder had studied philosophy and theology at Königsberg University. Kant was

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