Grégoire Canlorbe is a French intellectual entrepreneur. He currently resides in Paris. He interviewed me for The Foundation for Economic Education. Excerpt below: Grégoire Canlorbe: A second criticism, initially formulated by Michel Foucault in his 1979 lectures at the College de France, is that modern capitalist society and “disciplinary techniques” are completely bound with each other. […]
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An audiobook version of my “Egoism in Nietzsche and Rand” is below or at YouTube: Text version published in The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies 10:2, Spring 2009, 249-291. Also here as PDF. Also relevant: My chart (with sources) comparing Nietzsche’s and Rand’s positions on 96 philosophical issues.
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A new generation of sex robots is upon us, and the joking has begun. I don’t need one, says a wife, since my husband is already robotic in bed. Ha ha. Sure, a husband replies, but you should see my wife in inaction. (No thanks, I think to myself.) The next generation of sex robots promises
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Reposting for the new academic year: “University should teach you to make nuanced judgments. If you think there are only your views, and everyone else is Hitler, that’s a problem with you. You’re not an educated mind yet.” From my interview in Toronto’s Metro Canada newspaper’s “Defining Free Speech on Campus,” (page 9) as one
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How much time should one dedicate to one’s university schedule? Being a university student is in part preparation for a career. So a helpful method is to schedule yourself as a serious person with a career does. On average professionals work 45 hours a week. (Early-stage professionals such as doctors, lawyers, teachers, and entrepreneurs typically
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Syllabi for Professor Hicks’s Fall 2017 courses.
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Professor Stephen Hicks Philosophy 103 Topic 1: Philosophy and Self-Education “Arachne and Athena.” [Optional: Stephen Hicks on “The Story of Arachne and Athena” | Greek Mythology | Philosophers Explained series] “Top Regrets of the Dying.” Stephen Hicks, “What Entrepreneurs Can Teach Us All About Life” (The Wall Street Journal, 2016). Topic 2: Philosophy and War William
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The two professors discuss Postmodernism in depth.
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A new printing of the expanded edition was published this month in a snazzy hardcover. Its theme: “The failure of epistemology made postmodernism possible. The failure of socialism made postmodernism necessary.” This is the fifteenth printing since its first publication in 2004. Samples from the scholarly reviewers of the first edition: “By the end of Explaining
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Clashing protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia — far right, far left, and others. Street violence and declarations of emergency by the governing officials. How did we get to this? First, how postmodernism evolved through three phases from high theory to coercive activism: Second, other anti-liberal and anti-rational movements learn and adopt the same strategies to their
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