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Professor Steven Sanders’ review of *Explaining Postmodernism*

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Steven Sanders, Ph.D., is professor of philosophy at Bridgewater State University, Massachusetts. “Hicks writes about modern European philosophy and the Anglo-American tradition with sophistication and an eye for the thought-revealing anecdote.” Reason Papers 28 (Spring 2006): 111-124. Copyright © 2006Stephen R. C. Hicks’s Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to FoucaultA DiscussionSteven M. SandersBridgewater […]

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Ten topics in applied Objectivism — interviewed by Mark Michael Lewis [Transcript]

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Interviewer Mark Michael Lewis and I had an extended conversation about philosophy and its applications to education, business ethics, postmodernism, and entrepreneurship. A video of this interview is available at YouTube. Here is the transcript: Mark Lewis: Welcome to a new edition of Becoming an Ayn Rand Hero, where we use the ideas of Ayn Rand

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On “The truly great haters in world history have always been priests”

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A reader asked: “@SRCHicks: can you point to any examples where the greatest haters are priests, as Nietzsche claims? I find this fascinating but aside from the Inquisition and a litany of sexual assault cases against the weakest members of society (children) I can’t tangibly put this together.” The Nietzsche claim is from Genealogy of

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Top 10 posts of 2020

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10. SoHo debate quotes: Quine, Kuhn, Feyerabend, and Lentricchia. Follow-up to my debate with Thaddeus Russell. 9. Frightened Children Won’t Solve the World’s Problems. With link to my Wall Street Journal article, “Global Problems Are Too Big for Little Kids.” 8. Libertarian Social Justice? Hicks and Horwitz. At Friedman 8 conference. 7. “The Stain of Slavery”

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Spanish Libertarian interview on pomo, Jordan Peterson, and red-pilling SJWs [transcript]

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Ignasi Boltó, a.k.a. the Spanish Libertarian, asked me eleven questions for his YouTube channel. Here is the transcript: Ignasi Bolto: Hello, friends from the internet. It’s Ignasi from Spanish Libertarian. Today we’re making another interview in English. I know most of you usually speak in Spanish, but we also like to give content in other language. Also,

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The Real Scrooge [Open College transcripts]

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We’re posting the transcripts of my Open College podcasts. Most are available only to subscribers, but here for the holiday season is the thirtieth, on Scrooge’s hero’s journey: To speak of pride, friendship, liberality, and an overarching wisdom about how they all contribute to a fully self-realized life—all of that is to make Dickens’s Scrooge

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Sex Dolls — Why Not? [Open College transcript

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We’re now posting serially at thinkspot the notes and transcripts of my Open College podcasts. Here’s the twentieth: Newly-engineered materials and robotics have made the physical experiences closer to the real thing, and artificial intelligence has enabled the robots to respond verbally and non-verbally more realistically. Perhaps robots will soon be able to pass sex-and-romance

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The Stain of Slavery [Open College notes]

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We’re now posting serially at thinkspot the notes and transcripts of my Open College podcasts. Here’s the nineteenth: Professor Henry Louis Gates, Chair of African and African-American Studies at Harvard University wrote: “without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been

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A Conversation with Dr. Jordan Peterson [Open College transcripts]

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We’re now posting serially at thinkspot the transcripts of my Open College podcasts. Here’s the eighteenth: Jordan Peterson: “Your book Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault in particular has been quite controversial, so I thought we’d start with that …” Audio versions of the podcast are available free at my website, YouTube,

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Christian Socialism and C. S. Lewis [Open College transcript]

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We’re now posting serially at thinkspot the transcripts of my Open College podcasts. Here’s the seventeenth: C. S. Lewis said forthrightly: “A Christian society would be what we now call Leftist.” If we were to imagine, he asks us, a real Christian society, we would see that “its economic life was very socialistic.”  Audio versions of

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