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We’re posting serially at thinkspot the transcripts of my Open College podcasts. Here’s the tenth: OC10: Bhopal’s Chemical Disaster–Who Really Cares About the Environment. “Bhopal is a classic case of a mixed-economy, business-government partnership in the context of an overall socialist industrial policy. In such a corrupted business-politics environment, disasters are inevitable.” Audio versions of

Happily, due to the volume of very good questions I’ve been getting, I’m doing regular Q&A livestream sessions at thinkspot. The next one (free) is July 11 at noon Central. It will be an open session focusing on the questions (so far) about toppling statues, violence from Right and Left, free will, Marxism, BLM, and

A long form conversation with Dubai-based host Lucas Skrobot. Our topics: * Objectivity, wealth creation, and individual agency * The legacy of colonialism * Botswana and Zimbabwe, Hong Kong, Japan, * Sweden and Norway: first individualistic and market-based; then more re-distributive. * Poverty and pockets of socialism in America: government welfare, government schools, government restrictions

We’re adding another Q&A session at thinkspot, due to the number of very good questions I’ve been receiving. July 4’s Q&A will focus on the questions about Nietzsche and Rand. (The ones so far are listed below.) July 11’s Q&A will be an open session focusing on the questions about statues, violence from Right and

Three smart young people critique my book in this extended YouTube conversation. I enjoyed listening, criticisms and all, as they present both sides of the arguments, intelligently assess their strengths and weaknesses, and state forthrightly their own conclusions. “Explaining Stephen Hicks: Jordan Peterson and ‘Postmodern Neo-Marxism’?” In a forthcoming Open College podcast, I’ll respond to

My discussion with Glenn Beck ranged over capitalism and socialism, the ethics needed for a free society, Greek virtues, intolerance and indoctrination in education, Ayn Rand’s egoism and her view of charity, whether a meaningful life requires transcending failure, the differences between Antifa and Nazi Brownshirts, whether the National Socialist really were socialist, postmodernism, whether