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March 29, 2023
“Doryphoros” by Polykleitos, c. 450-440 BCE [Newberry on Great Art series]
An Artist’s View: Michael Newberry on Key Works of Art in History Michael Newberry is a California-based artist who has exhibited across Europe and North America. He is the author of books on color theory, philosophy of art, modernism and postmodernism in art, and art history. We invited him into our studio for this series …
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March 27, 2023
Liberalism: Pro & Con en Español
My Liberalism: Pro and Con has been translated into Spanish by Fermin Elizalde. We will be serially publishing here each part prior to the publication of the book as a whole. Find the English version here: Amazon. From the blurb for the English edition: In this primer, we take up the best arguments for and …
March 26, 2023
Do we have an innate need to believe in something bigger than ourselves?
Is philosophy pointless? With Carter Loren of Unsafe Spaces, Stephen Hicks takes up those and other questions. Related: Professor Hicks’s Philosophers, Explained series on the great thinkers and classic texts.
What the Nazis took from Nietzsche — 5-minute clip from Australia
Stephen Hicks, Professor of Philosophy (USA) and John Anderson, former Deputy Prime Minister (Australia) discuss what the National Socialists of Germany adapted, controversially, from the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. Related: Professor Hicks’s full book treatment of the topic:
March 25, 2023
On the constant doom-saying
Earlier I asked this question: How should a layperson process constant doomsday claims that don’t materialize? I’m not a climate-change expert. Yet I’m an intelligent man who’s read the news for about 40 years. I’ve seen this headline in various publications about once a week—i.e., about 2,000 times. So the question: How should a layperson …
March 24, 2023
Remember: Marx was a big fan of capitalism
“In broad outlines, ancient, feudal, and modern bourgeois modes of production can be designated as progressive epochs in the economic formation of society.” Karl Marx, preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy. Emphasis added. For fuller explanation: My close reading of Marx and Engels’ The Communist Manifesto:
March 23, 2023
The best footnote ever: Freud on putting out fires
Traditional sex roles have it that the woman looks after the family hearth, tending the cooking and raising the children, while the man goes off to hunt and fight. Many explanations can be offered for these assigned roles, but to my knowledge Sigmund Freud has the most, uummmm, interesting explanation for why men are not …
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March 22, 2023
Dominique and Roark in Clayton, Ohio [80th Anniversary of *The Fountainhead*]
In Part 3, Chapter 5, of The Fountainhead, Dominique Francon has gone to Clayton, a faded town in Ohio, where architect Howard Roark is working on a department store. She cannot get over the fact that Roark has to work “in some nameless hole of a place” after having built skyscrapers in New York. “Roark, …
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March 21, 2023
Next week: Stephen Hicks Speaks at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Good Woke, Bad Woke Atlas Society Senior Scholar and renowned philosopher, Dr. Stephen Hicks will travel to University of Wisconsin-Madison on March 28th to speak at an open speak on Good Woke, Bad Woke (and Our Debates Over Liberty, Equality, and Progress). All are welcome to attend the event at the Lubar College of Business, Room …
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March 20, 2023
Why Steve Jobs hated school, and how not to sabotage young future entrepreneurs
Reprising this opening to my essay “How Can We Make Entrepreneurs?”: “As a kid, Steve Jobs hated school. Many of us can relate, even if we are not brilliant business innovators. School bored the young Jobs painfully, and he reacted by engaging in acts of disobedience and defiance. ‘I was pretty bored in school,’ he …
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