Politics – Page 12 – Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

Hicks on First-Generation Postmodernism [In Case You Missed It]

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Postmodernism Part 1 by Stephen Hicks. This is the original 1998 lecture that led to the now-classic Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault. Professor Hicks argues that first-generation postmodernism is best understood as a rhetorical strategy of intellectuals and academics on the far-Left of the political spectrum to the failure of socialism. […]

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Re-learning tolerance, 21st century version

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In the religious wars of the16th and 17th centuries, persecution, torture, and killing were widespread. Yet out of that ugliness we learned, morally, that tolerating others’ mistaken views is essential and, politically, that individuals must be free to think, learn, and act. We learned to live and let live in regular life, and we learned

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A Poverty Trap — young, single mother version

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Suppose that you’re a single mother living in a rough part of the city. The father of your child is not around. You’d like to work, but it’s a challenge to fit that with your commitments as a mother. Yet you have ambition and energy — and an entrepreneurial idea: Other women in your area

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Government and Sex // Government and Business

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Calls for “Government-Business cooperation” to run the economy should be seen as skeptically as calls for “Government-Sex Clinic cooperation” to run our bedroom lives. Related: “From the Office of the Reproducer-General.“

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Sex vaccine mandates

1 Comment / Humor, Medicine, Politics / Stephen Hicks

We currently have an epidemic of sexually transmitted diseases. Many do not adequately protect themselves, and many do not properly respect and protect others. To curb this epidemic, I propose: 1. Before entering bars and nightclubs or any establishment wherein pre-sexual interactions may occur, patrons must provide certification of their STD status. 2. Prior to

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Data on Socialism [Atlas Intellectuals]

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Socialism by the numbers. This unit of the Atlas Intellectuals course provides data on countries that are currently socialistic. The complements the first eleven units of our Socialism course, which cover theoretical and historical aspects of socialism and their implementations. Find the data here. We analyzed and compared 24 countries to each other and the

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Hicks on “Democratic Socialism for Beginners”

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This unit of our Atlas University course on Socialism analyzes democratic socialism: In our generation, most socialists have shifted away from overtly dictatorial socialism. Among younger people is some level of awareness of socialism’s terrible history but they still think of it as an ideal to be striven for. What do they hope for and

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Alan Charles Kors, “Socialism’s Legacy: Lest We Forget” [Atlas Intellectuals]

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If you are not familiar with Professor Kors’s work, give yourself a treat and check out his lecture at Clemson University, which we feature as part of our Waterfall course on Socialism. Dr. Kors is a professor of history (emeritus) at the University of Pennsylvania and an expert in European intellectual history and co-founder of

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