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The Blaze profile: “Stephen Hicks: Philosopher, Highwayman” [re-printing]

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Stephen Hicks: Philosopher, Highwayman By: Kevin Ryan The philosopher navigates from the passenger seat of our Mazda CX-3 as we cross Stone Arch Bridge in deepening afternoon, over the North Mississippi with its polluted blue water. “Everything is connected,” he says. “Everything has implications.” When he talks, he floats his hands. Throughout the day, random […]

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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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Talley’s review of Explaining Pomo — and its negative critics

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Matt Talley: “I recently finished Explaining Postmodernism by Stephen Hicks. I had heard some really negative remarks from a few FB friends so I was curious to see how they held up after reading the book myself.” The comments after Talley’s review are worth reading too. See also my Open College response to two sets

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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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Eton teacher Knowland fired for Patriarchy discussion

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Eton teacher Will Knowland was fired for this online discussion of sex and gender: (I’m quoted on free speech at the 2:15-minute mark. Thanks to Marian Tupy for the link.) While Knowland’s discussion takes up whether Patriarchy is natural/artificial and good/bad — the implicit lesson of his firing seems to be Thou shalt not challenge

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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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