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“Democracy and Freedom — Compatible?” talk upcoming at Conferēncia Atlantos, Brazil

I will be speaking (in English!) in Porto Alegre, Brazil, on April 10.

Scholarship on Jordan Peterson’s ideas

Sandra Woien, Ph.D., a philosopher at Arizona State University, has put together this fine volume of eighteen essays on Peterson’s thinking. Michael Shellenberger wrote the foreword. I have an essay in the book on Peterson’s pragmatic approach to religion. Here is the Table of Contents: Part I The Culture Warrior 1 1. Jordan Peterson, Secular …

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3-minute animation: Nietzsche’s Masters and Slaves

In collaboration with Sprouts Schools, I welcome you to view this excerpt: The script was excerpted from my book Nietzsche and the Nazis. The audiobook edition has a gratifying 3.7 millions listens so far. Check out all three video-animations at the Sprouts Schools channel, which together have over 500,00 views at YouTube so far: Part …

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“Free Expression—versus Postmodernism.” Talk in São Paulo, Brazil

Liberdade de Expressão e Pós-Modernismo. I will be speaking in English at this co-sponsored, public event.

Stephen Hicks: Ask Me Anything about Ethics

Join our Senior Scholar, Dr. Stephen Hicks Wednesday, April 6 @ 3:30 PM PT / 6:30 PM ET for a special “Ask Me Anything About Ethics” event in which Dr. Hicks will be answering your questions on ethics and questions from our 63K Instagram followers. Bring your most interesting questions! Not yet on Clubhouse, and interested? Use this link HERE to get …

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The Anti-Capitalism Course: “Next-Generation Socialism?”

With Stephen Hicks, Ph.D. The fourth session of The Anti-Capitalism Course will be “Next Generation Socialism?” Link to register for the session at Kazm. Reading in preparation for the session: Robert Heilbroner, “Socialism” (1993). And for the ambitious, Heilbroner’s earlier “What Is Socialism?”, Dissent Magazine (1978).  You can also check out the first three sessions at Kazm.

Alexander Dugin is a straight-up Fascist

Alexander Dugin is the most well-known philosopher in Russia. New to my Texts in Philosophy page, for use in my courses, is this translation of Dugin’s 1997 article “Fascism—Borderless and Red”. His influence upon Vladimir Putin and Putin’s inner circle is real but its degree is debated by experts on current Russian politics. Dugin was …

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Hicks on First-Generation Postmodernism [In Case You Missed It]

Postmodernism Part 1 by Stephen Hicks. This is the original 1998 lecture that led to the now-classic Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault. Professor Hicks argues that first-generation postmodernism is best understood as a rhetorical strategy of intellectuals and academics on the far-Left of the political spectrum to the failure of socialism. …

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Mis artículos en español (My articles in Spanish): “La Inferioridad Moral del Posmodernismo”

“La Inferioridad Moral del Posmodernismo.” Por Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D. ¿Estamos luchando contra los posmodernistas con una mano atada a la espalda? Traducido al Español por Fermin Elizalde. English version (The Spectator), Portuguese translation, and audio version.

Education Theory 12: Objectivism, Rand, and Montessori

15-lecture series by Professor Stephen R.C. Hicks, Rockford University. Part Twelve: Objectivism and Education. How does Objectivist philosophy, and Ayn Rand’s thinking in particular, apply to education, and how consistent is it with Maria Montessori’s principles? Previous lectures in the series: Part One: Introduction: What is the purpose of education, and what is philosophy’s relevance? …

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