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CEE guest speaker video interviews — new location

All CEE videos are now hosted at YouTube. Thanks to Chris Vaughan for performing the gargantuan task of transferring the material. Anil Singh-Molares on Microsoft and entrepreneurship.Terry Noel on The Virtuous Entrepreneur.Emily Chamlee-Wright on non-profits and the recovery efforts after Hurricane Katrina.Steven Horwitz on Wal-Mart to the rescue after Hurricane Katrina.David Mayer on Thomas Jefferson, […]

MODERN PHILOSOPHY — 8-lecture course syllabus

In this eight-lecture course, Professor Stephen Hicks guides us through the Enlightenment and the Counter-Enlightenment, including philosophers Francis Bacon, René Descartes, John Locke, Voltaire, David Hume, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Immanuel Kant, Georg Hegel, Karl Marx, John Stuart Mill, and Friedrich Nietzsche. For each, Dr. Hicks establishes the philosopher’s context, presents his or her most influential arguments, […]

The PHILOSOPHY of POLITICS — a 16-lecture series

Professor Stephen Hicks‘s courses on the influential political philosophies of the modern era —Liberalism, Conservatism, Nationalism, Communism, Fascism, Capitalism, Islamism, Postmodernism, and more. The syllabi: Part 1: From the French Revolution to World War II Part 2: From the Cold War to After 9/11 Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D. is Professor of Philosophy and the […]

FASCISM. Benito MUSSOLINI & Giovanni GENTILE. Lecture 6 of *The Philosophy of Politics: From the French Revolution to World War II*

Mussolini & Gentile: “Anti-individualistic, the Fascist conception of life stresses the importance of the State and accepts the individual only in so far as his interests coincide with those of the State.” And: “The Fascist conception of life is a religious one, in which man is viewed in his immanent relation to a higher law, […]

VEILED JUSTICE POLITICS. John RAWLS. Lecture 2 of *The Philosophy of Politics: From the Cold War to After 9/11*

Rawls: We must “look for a conception of justice that nullifies the accidents of natural endowments and the contingencies of social circumstance“. About the Course In this eight-lecture course, Professor Stephen R.C. Hicks takes us on a journey through the evolution of modern political philosophies from the tensions of Cold War to the turbulent post-9/11 […]

Geniuses and their followers

Wisdom about the challenge of learning from a great genius and then finding one’s own path. Here is Zarathustra: “Now I go alone, my disciples, You too, go now, alone. Thus I want it. Go away from me and resist Zarathustra! And even better: be ashamed of him! Perhaps he deceived you. The man of […]

CEE video interviews: Noel, Thompson, Horwitz, Sandefur, and others

I have been fortunate to interview several of CEE's expert guest speakers over the past year.

A FOURTH WAY of (Russian) POLITICS? Alexander DUGIN. Lecture 7 of *The Philosophy of Politics: From the Cold War to After 9/11*

Dugin: “The entirety of Russian history is a dialectical argument with the West and against Western culture … The brightest Russian minds clearly saw that the West was moving towards the abyss.” About the Course In this eight-lecture course, Professor Stephen R.C. Hicks takes us on a journey through the evolution of modern political philosophies […]

Luigi Zingales on Keynesians

A zinger from Zingales: “Keynesianism has conquered the hearts and minds of politicians and ordinary people alike because it provides a theoretical justification for irresponsible behavior. Medical science has established that one or two glasses of wine per day are good for your long-term health, but no doctor would recommend a recovering alcoholic to follow […]

The CAPITALIST IDEAL. Ayn RAND & Robert NOZICK. Lecture 1 of *The Philosophy of Politics: From the Cold War to After 9/11*

Rand: “Since knowledge, thinking, and rational action are properties of the individual, since the choice to exercise his rational faculty or not depends on the individual, man’s survival requires that those who think be free of the interference of those who don’t.” About the Course In this eight-lecture course, Professor Stephen R.C. Hicks takes us […]