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Criticizing American universities — plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose

How true is the following diagnosis of contemporary higher education? “During the past twenty years the leading universities of the country have changed markedly in form and function … All tend to suffer from similar and unexampled difficulties. They spend huge sums and are desperately poor; their students attack them; the neighbors hate them; their […]

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Millick’s The Challenges for Leadership, Values, and Happiness

I recommend Charles Millick’s The Challenges for Leadership, Values, and Happiness. Millick is a business professor at Wheeling Jesuit University, where he relocated after decades of real-life business experience at General Electric and other blue-chip corporations, as an entrepreneur, and as a management consultant. In this new book, Millick collects and condenses decades of leadership

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More on the decline of civilization: Sallust

2 Comments / History, Human Nature / Stephen Hicks

Following up on “Are we declining from our decline?” and “The constant decline of civilization?”, here is one of my favorites historians, Sallust (86– c. 35 BCE), on how his generation of Romans is so much worse morally than the preceding ones. In The War with Catiline, he writes: “Since the occasion has arisen to

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Marx’s 10-point plan 50% realized in USA

10 Comments / Politics / Stephen Hicks

The ten-point list from The Communist Manifesto, with my rough quantification: 1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes. [Partial check: property taxes, zoning laws, the federal government alone owns 30% of all land in the USA. .6 points.] 2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.

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Marketing ethics and Che Guevara

3 Comments / Business Ethics, Politics / Stephen Hicks

Below is the text of an open letter published in The Huffington Post on September 19, 2012 by Thor Halvorssen, Founder of the Human Rights Foundation. The letter is useful for Business Ethics courses in discussions of marketing and advertising using popular political figures, especially political figures with a record like Guevara’s. An Open Letter

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Zombies and International Politics

Leave a Comment / Politics / Stephen Hicks

Theories of International Politics and Zombies is Daniel Drezner’s mostly tongue-in-cheek* discussion of various theories’ takes on the zombie threat. Having watched two zombie shows in my life — The Omega Man** when I was 11, and The Walking Dead this year — I consider myself expertly qualified to comment on Drezner’s book: It is

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Pushback against pomo art orthodoxies

4 Comments / Art / Stephen Hicks

Three recent and encouraging data points: The collapse of Damien Hirst’s art market — Bloomberg notes that “at a time when the contemporary art market has sharply rebounded, with auctions pulling in proceeds that rival the giddiest pre-recession highs,” Hirst’s value has jumped the shark. “Hirst works acquired during his commercial peak, between 2005 and

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Reason Papers: my review of America the Philosophical

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My short, unhappy review [pdf] of Carlin Romano’s America the Philosophical (A.A. Knopf, 2012) is now out in the latest issue of Reason Papers. The issue as a whole [pdf] also features a timely symposium of seven scholars on Sari Nusseibeh’s What Is a Palestinian State Worth?, several independent essays, and ten reviews of recent

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