. . I am re-reading Judy Estrin’s Closing the Innovation Gap, in preparation for an interview I will be doing with her for Kaizen. Estrin is a successful Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur and is currently on the board of directors of FedEx and Disney. She is worried about the U.S.’s culture of innovation, believing it […]
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Dr. David Mayer on his lecture, “Thomas Jefferson and the Holy Cause of Freedom,” about Jefferson’s writings on the nature and importance of liberty. Part I Part II More interviews with CEE’s guest speakers are available here.
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My interview at the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship with Dr. David N. Mayer on his forthcoming book on U.S. Constitutional interpretation, Freedom’s Constitution.
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How structures concretize a political system’s core social dynamic: . Feudalism: Build walls to keep the enemy out. Examples: the medieval castle, the Great Wall of China. . . . . . . Socialism: Build walls to keep your people in. Examples: the Berlin Wall, the Koreas’ DMZ. . . . . . . .
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My two-part interview at CEE with Dr. C. Bradley Thompson about his forthcoming book Neoconservatism: An Obituary for an Idea, focusing on the early 20th-century political philosopher Leo Strauss’s influence on the founders of Neoconservativism. Part I Part II More interviews with CEE’s guest speakers are available here.
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David Thompson is a critic and commentator with strong interests in pop culture and postmodernism. His interview with me based on my book Explaining Postmodernism is now posted at his site. Previous interviews I’ve done on postmodernism’s themes and roots were published in Navigator and New Individualist magazines. The following scholarly reviews of the book
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Putting into one flowchart what I have learned from Adam Smith, Ayn Rand, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, James Buchanan, and Gordon Tullock. The flowchart is in spreadsheet format: the short version and the long version in Excel 2007 or in Excel 97-2003. Update: DJ Dates has a cool, scalable Google maps version
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Nietzsche and the Nazis, A Personal View by Stephen Hicks, Ph.D. Publisher: Ockham’s Razor Publishing, 2006.Format: 2:45-hour DVD documentary. Featured at Netflix. Reviewed by Professor Tibor Machan. [Go to the Nietzsche and the Nazis page. Go to the StephenHicks.org main page.]
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