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Fired-from-Eton-College Will Knowland interview [Open College podcast]

Episode 52 in my Open College with Dr. Stephen Hicks podcast series. 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? From the description: “Will Knowland was removed from his role at the prestigious Eton College after […]

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Clubhouse and TAS’s Senior Scholars (and How Capitalist is the USA?)

I’ll be participating once a month in a new Clubhouse program run by The Atlas Society. Each Wednesday, one of TAS’s senior scholars will lead an informal conversation. Topics will be announced ahead of time, and one can register here. I will lead off the series on September 1 with the question “How ‘Capitalist’ Is

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Tara Smith, “Objective Law” [Atlas Intellectuals]

In this week of the self-paced course on Objectivity we feature Tara Smith’s “Objective Law”. Smith (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University) is professor of philosophy at the University of Texas and author of Judicial Review in an Objective Legal System (Cambridge University Press, 2015). Our Executive Summary gives eight key points from Smith’s 13-page article. The full course

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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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J. S. Mill, “Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion” [Atlas Intellectuals]

This unit of our self-paced course on Objectivity, we feature John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty with its powerful attack on censorship in all forms. Mill argues passionately for objectivity and intellectual diversity in liberal education. See the Executive Summary here. The full course on Objectivity: https://www.atlassociety.org/course/objectivity Other Atlas Intellectuals courses on Capitalism, Postmodernism, Money, Robotics,

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