Is philosophy pointless? With Carter Loren of Unsafe Spaces, Stephen Hicks takes up those and other questions. Related: Professor Hicks’s Philosophers, Explained series on the great thinkers and classic texts.
Do we have an innate need to believe in something bigger than ourselves? Read More »
Earlier I asked this question: How should a layperson process constant doomsday claims that don’t materialize? I’m not a climate-change expert. Yet I’m an intelligent man who’s read the news for about 40 years. I’ve seen this headline in various publications about once a week—i.e., about 2,000 times. So the question: How should a layperson
On the constant doom-saying Read More »
Traditional sex roles have it that the woman looks after the family hearth, tending the cooking and raising the children, while the man goes off to hunt and fight. Many explanations can be offered for these assigned roles, but to my knowledge Sigmund Freud has the most, uummmm, interesting explanation for why men are not
The best footnote ever: Freud on putting out fires Read More »
In Part 3, Chapter 5, of The Fountainhead, Dominique Francon has gone to Clayton, a faded town in Ohio, where architect Howard Roark is working on a department store. She cannot get over the fact that Roark has to work “in some nameless hole of a place” after having built skyscrapers in New York. “Roark,
Dominique and Roark in Clayton, Ohio [80th Anniversary of *The Fountainhead*] Read More »
Reprising this earlier post about Only a God Can Save Us, and my 40-minute interview with van Davis about his documentary on philosopher Martin Heidegger’s involvement with National Socialism: Part 1: Part 2 is here: See also Chapter Three of Explaining Postmodernism. Related:
Interview with director Jeffrey van Davis on Heidegger and Nazism Read More »
Quince argumentos para el Capitalismo Liberal: Este post va a formar parte de una serie de argumentos del libro “Liberalism: Pro & Con” de Stephen Hicks en español. Pueden encontrar todos los argumentos que serán publicados en orden en el siguiente link: Liberalism: Pro & Con en español. EN CONTRA Argumento 6: Las sociedades Capitalistas
Las sociedades Capitalistas Liberales son aburridas [Liberalism: Pro & Con en Español] Read More »
33-minute lecture delivered by Dr. Stephen Hicks at the Museum of World War II, December 2022: Related: Martin Heidegger (“What Is Metaphysics?”) and Alexander Dugin (“Fascism—Borderless and Red”) in the Philosophers, Explained series.
Get your tickets today at Reliance College’s site. Live in or near the Chicago area? You’re invited to join Professor Stephen Hicks, Ph.D., for a night of ideas and discussion on the topic “What Entrepreneurial Education Is and Why We Need it Now.” Hosted by Reliance College, a new liberal arts college — opening September
Tomorrow in Chicago: Jefferson Dinner with Stephen Hicks Read More »
Quince argumentos para el Capitalismo Liberal: Este post va a formar parte de una serie de argumentos del libro “Liberalism: Pro & Con” de Stephen Hicks en español. Pueden encontrar todos los argumentos que serán publicados en orden en el siguiente link: Liberalism: Pro & Con en español. EN CONTRA Argumento 5: El Capitalismo Liberal
El Capitalismo Liberal es materialista [Liberalism: Pro & Con en Español] Read More »
Get your tickets today at Reliance College’s site. Live in or near the Chicago area? You’re invited to join Professor Stephen Hicks, Ph.D., for a night of ideas and discussion on the topic “What Entrepreneurial Education Is and Why We Need it Now.” Hosted by Reliance College, a new liberal arts college — opening September
Next week in Chicago: Jefferson Dinner with Stephen Hicks Read More »