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January 25, 2022
On 1930s American intellectuals — quotation
From MIT professor Leo Marx, who was a student at Harvard University in the 1930s. In those years many students were drawn to the Left. As an undergraduate I was active in the Harvard branch of the left-wing American Student Union and the editor of its magazine, the Harvard Progressive. For a year or so …
January 24, 2022
Explaining the cultural and electoral success of the National Socialists
Happy that this interview has topped 100,000 views. Related: Nietzsche and the Nazis, which is now closing in on 3 million views.
January 23, 2022
Stalin on fascism
How accurate is this claim of Joseph Stalin’s? It is from 1924, still early in the Soviet Union’s dictatorship-of-the-proletariat stage of communism. Lenin had died in January, and this Stalin speech was published in September: Fascism is the bourgeoisie’s fighting organisation that relies on the active support of Social-Democracy. Social-Democracy is objectively the moderate wing …
January 22, 2022
Speaking in Brazil, April 2022
I’m happy to be invited to speak in Porto Alegre, Brazil, on freedom of expression. The Fórum da Liberdade typically has 5,000 in-person attendees and 250,000 online around the world. Here’s the event website: https://www.forumdaliberdade.com.br/ I will also be in São Paulo working with my publisher to promote the Brazilian Portuguese edition of my Explaining …
January 21, 2022
Dictatorship of the Woketariat example
I’ve been reading this stuff for years, but it can still make me agog and aghast sometimes. The chart has the usual slippery contrasts combined with racist epistemologies: Your color group defines your thinking and feeling, and groups’ values differ (though one of those color groups is also wrong and bad). The effect is to …
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 20, 2022
On Marx’s Kantianism
In his biography of Michel Foucault, James Miller notes this important Kantian element in Marx: “Although the Cartesian sense of subjectivist coincided with individual consciousness and the cogito, in German philosophy after Kant the term came to connote a universal faculty (in Kant, the transcendental ego as the condition of the unity of empirical perception). …
January 19, 2022
What is art? | Philosophy for Real Life (17 of 22) | Stephen Hicks
Two-minute answers to key questions about philosophy, politics, art, and the meaning of life. What is the significance of art? Why is it so powerful? Filmed in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The full series is published at the CEE Video Channel. Description: At some point in our lives, we each ask ourselves the big questions. How …
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Current Events TODAY! Stephen Hicks and Richard Salsman.
Topic: What’s currently happening in the country from an Objectivist perspective. Inflation at 7% Why and what next? Free speech survey in universities, gender gap results: young women much more likely to want to ban words; a significant minority of young men also agree with bans. Progress: Pig heart transplanted into human. SCOTUS strikes down …
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January 18, 2022
Course materials, Spring 2022 semester
Sports Ethics (PHIL 223): https://www.stephenhicks.org/courses-... Business and Economic Ethics (PHIL 325): https://www.stephenhicks.org/courses-....
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