At the Voluntaryist site, Keith Knight asked me seven questions: 1. What is liberal capitalism, and why is it a moral system? 2. What about the poor? What about bleeding-heart libertarianism, and why should poor people favor liberal capitalism? 3. What is wealth, and how can we accurately measure it? 4. What is the Frankfurt […]
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A very good three-part essay by Crypto on (1) Postmodernism, (2) Neo-Marxism, and (3) their intersection. I don’t know who the authors are, but I appreciate their clear and concise summary. Their statement of purpose in writing the essay: “this essay was not written with the intention of expressing agreement or disagreement with Peterson’s conceptualisation
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From an interview of Francis Fukyama by Evan Goldstein: Q. You have an unusual background for a political scientist. You majored in classics at Cornell, then did graduate work in comparative literature at Yale, where you studied with Paul de Man. Later you spent time in Paris sitting in on classes with Roland Barthes and
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Here’s Wikipedia’s list of verified oldest people in the world. Interested in the geographical and economic distributions. But the numbers by sex are striking: Top 10: All females. 3 from Japan, 2 from USA, 1 each from France, Canada, Jamaica, Italy, Ecuador. Top 20: 19 females and 1 male. 6 more from USA, 2 more
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The full playlist of Open College with Stephen Hicks is here. Free Speech: Why the Philosophy Matters. Episode #1 Violent Politics: The Lesson of Marxism. Episode #2 Conservatives Are Not Free-Market Capitalists. Episode #3 The Dim Ruins of the Enlightenment? Episode #4 Conservatives: Get Over the Dark Ages. Episode #5 Nietzsche’s Sister and The Will
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At Britain’s Church and State site, my article “Religion and the Verdict of History” has been republished. One theme about sub-species of religious belief: “It’s the difference — to take one very particular example — between those who believe, as Benjamin Franklin did, that ‘Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to
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The transcript of my discussion with Sargon of Akkad follows the embedded video. Understanding Postmodernism with Professor Stephen Hicks Transcript of Sargon of Akkad’s (a.k.a. Carl Benjamin) interview with Stephen Hicks, June 2018 Questions What inspired you to write a book explaining postmodernism? Military history suggests that pomo is an attack strategy—is it?
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September 1, 1939 is the date the German Nazis invaded Poland, initiating World War Two. Less well remembered is the shortly thereafter Soviet Russian invasion of Poland. A month earlier, the Nazis and Soviets had agreed not to attack each other and to divide Poland (and other parts of eastern Europe) between them. The Soviets
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Thanks to Mohamad Machine-Chian for this translation. It was first published as two separate columns in The Good Life series as “Is Republishing Hitler’s Mein Kampf the Correct Decision?” and “Is Free Speech Dead in Universities?” The two articles were edited by Vinay Kolhatkar and published at The Savvy Street. The articles were also translated
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British philosopher John Gray claims: “We live today amid the dim ruins of the Enlightenment project, which was the ruling project of the modern period.” For more on the implications of Gray’s pessimistic assessment for postmodernism, see p. 23 of my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism from Rousseau to Foucault. Information about other editions and translations is
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