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February 3, 2022
Hurston on race pride
Exactly right: My other favorite line from Hurston is this one: “Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.” (Source: Zora Neale Hurston, “How It Feels to Be Colored Me,” 1928).
February 2, 2022
Whoopi Goldberg’s opinion — quick liberal response
“The View” host Whoopi Goldberg said that the Holocaust was “not about race” but about “man’s inhumanity to other man” and that it involved “two white groups of people.” ABC News responded by suspending her for two weeks. As cancellations go, that is mild — yet it still is a cancel-culture reaction. A healthier liberal …
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Ask Me Anything — Ethics (TODAY)
Join as at Clubhouse for an “Ask Me Anything — Ethics” event, were I will be answering questions about ethics and philosophy. Join our Senior Scholar, Dr. Stephen Hicks Wednesday, February 2 @ 3:30 PM PT / 6:30 PM ET for a special “Ask Me Anything About Ethics” event where Dr. Hicks will be answering your questions on ethics …
February 1, 2022
Anecdote: open racism in hiring in higher ed
I received this email on February 1, 2022:Hi Prof. Hicks, I saw your Facebook post about Jordan Peterson’s resignation and noticed XX’s comment. While I’m uncomfortable speaking up publicly about it for fear of retaliation against me from my faculty peers, I did want to note that I recently had a chair of a search …
Contrasting the 1964 Berkeley Free Speech Movement to now
The Berkeley Free Speech Movement, was a student-led initiative to increase and enhance the free-speech rights of students. Long-time political activist and University of California, Berkeley, professor Albert Lepawsky, said this: “The main task we face is preserving the university not merely as a free political community but primarily as an institution that is privileged …
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January 31, 2022
Hannah Arendt on manipulating mass psychology
From The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951): “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.” Why? “In an ever-changing, …
January 30, 2022
Ask Me Anything — Ethics (February 2 event)
Join as at Clubhouse for an “Ask Me Anything — Ethics” event, were I will be answering questions about ethics and philosophy. Join our Senior Scholar, Dr. Stephen Hicks Wednesday, February 2 @ 3:30 PM PT / 6:30 PM ET for a special “Ask Me Anything About Ethics” event where Dr. Hicks will be answering your questions on ethics …
January 29, 2022
Dangerous Thoughts podcast: interviewed by Carter
I was interviewed by Carter of Unsafe Spaces. Our theme was “The Seeds of Woke Culture.” Timestamps: 00:00 The Rise of Woke Culture 01:24 Introduction of Stephen Hicks 02:22 Describing woke culture 09:50 Assumptions of liberal culture 13:40 Let’s look at the Enlightenment 18:58 The Counter-Enlightenment and Rousseau 26:08 Immanuel Kant. Enlightenment Thinker? 31:00 Divorce …
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January 28, 2022
A Poverty Trap — young, single mother version
Suppose that you’re a single mother living in a rough part of the city. The father of your child is not around. You’d like to work, but it’s a challenge to fit that with your commitments as a mother. Yet you have ambition and energy — and an entrepreneurial idea: Other women in your area …
January 27, 2022
The Anti-Capitalism Course: “Fascism vs. Capitalism”
With Dr. Stephen Hicks The second session of The Anti-Capitalism Course will be “Fascism versus Capitalism.” The reading for this session is Giovanni Gentile and Benito Mussolini’s The Doctrine of Fascism. Professor Gentile was an Idealist and Hegelian philosopher who taught at several Italian universities. Link to register for the session at Kazm. You can also check …
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