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Liberal Education: What Is It and What Is It Good For?

Below is a transcript of my “Conversations with Marsha” discussion, first published at YouTube: Stephen Hicks on Liberal Education: What is it and what is it good for? Marsha Enright: Good morning, and I’m happy to be here with friend and longtime Great Connections advisor Stephen Hicks. This is Marsha Enright from the Great Connections. […]

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Professor Max Hocutt’s review of *Explaining Postmodernism*

“This excellent little volume, by an objectivist philosopher possessed of acute understanding and broad learning, asks and answers two pertinent questions: First, why have ‘postmodernist’ intellectuals of the kind you find in English departments and Women Studies programs, but not the Chemistry department, rejected Enlightenment belief in reason while embracing epistemological relativism and metaphysical nihilism

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The Atlas Society Asks Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

Jennifer Grossman, CEO of The Atlas Society interviews senior scholar Stephen Hicks on Black Lives, Matter, Covid, postmodernism, Cultural Marxism, and varieties of racism. This interview and Q&A was first published at YouTube in 2020. Below is a transcription. SUMMARY KEYWORDS: Racism, postmodernism, individualism, Marxism, reparations, capitalism, justice, institutional racism, Black Lives Matter SPEAKERS: Jennifer

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Eduardo Marty: La envidia, el sentimiento autodestructivo que alimenta la decadencia argentina

Ha alimentado durante toda nuestra historia al populismo argentino. Desde los caudillos a Rosas, desde Perón a Galtieri, desde Néstor a Cristina Por Eduardo Marty. Artículo original en Infobae: aquí. Con referencias de Stephen Hicks. “Envy: hatred of the good for being the good” (Ayn Rand) Si ha habido un sentimiento que ha alimentado durante toda

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My first 1 million views video at YouTube

Happy with this result: My Nietzsche and the Nazis audiobook hit one million views today. Through the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship we’re experimenting with a variety of online educational materials — video lectures, audio books, interviews with academics, entrepreneurs, and other experts. So it’s gratifying in this new media world that we’re getting traction.

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Morality without Gods? [Open College podcast]

Episode 53 in my Open College with Dr. Stephen Hicks podcast series is now out. Title: Morality without Gods?Publication Date: August 24, 2021Transcript: (Forthcoming) All audio versions of the podcast are available free at my website, YouTube, Bitchute, Apple Podcasts, SoundCloud. Some transcriptions are available via my media page at thinkspot. Episodes coming soon to

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El populismo triunfa donde falla la educación

El populismo triunfa donde falla la educación Por Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D. Para Hicks, estas escuelas de pensamiento están en constante conflicto. Por un lado, se encuentran los ídolos del sistema educativo de América Latina: Rousseau, Marx, Hegel, Heidegger, Foucault, Sartre, Kant, Nietzsche y Derrida. Por el otro, tenemos a Bacon, Locke, Newton, Smith,

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ContraPoints on Envy (and some snark)

Thanks to Mark V. Kormes for the link to ContraPoint’s vlog on envy. It’s an excellent diagnosis of this pathology — including apt insights from Aristotle, Nietzsche, Paglia, and other important names. And she’s even read Schoeck’s masterwork Envy. Contrapoints’s video is well worth your time for its coverage of envy’s many manifestations. Towards the

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Will Knowland (fired from Eton) interviews Stephen Hicks

I was interviewed by Will Knowland, who was sacked from his teaching position at England’s prestigious Eton College over a Woke-controversial lecture. Our theme: Educate or Indoctrinate? Here’s a two-minute excerpt: Is everything just power? And here is the full interview (list of questions and topics is below): (Here are two pieces of journalism on

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