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Open College with Dr. Stephen R.C. Hicks. A podcast to explain the chaos. RT is not endorsement. #Bitcoin: 193B5u744gTB1iRbLRvZpvRB4SBC1wNMZW
Joined August 2018
Open College #26 Manifest Destiny Wasn't https://t.co/StKmoZiuv0
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Lot’s Mob and Drunk Incestous Sex—and How to Interpret Scripture. My site: https://t.co/SjQU4vFVyl
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How Christianity blended with Greek and Roman culture to create modernity. A long-form discussion from Aquinas through Renaissance humanism and the Protestant Reformation culminating in the Enlightenment. A second thread on counter-Enlightenment developments from Rousseau
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Count me surprised: Number of Chinese restaurants in the USA: 34,000. Number of Subway restaurants: 20,100. Number of McDonald's: 13,700. Number of Burger Kings: 6,650. Number of Wendy's: 5,800.
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Bad history in the linked post from PA. True that many old cultures had no problem with child sex. The Greeks, though, were tolerant only of pederastic relations after the boy went through puberty, and then only if was in a mentoring context. Christians also set minimum ages
Here’s an uncomfortable truth about the Epstein accusations: We only find them morally reprehensible because of Christianity. Before the spread of Christianity, “civilized” Greek and Roman elites openly flaunted underage s*x slaves. This was normal. Emperor Hadrian built an
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Highly enjoyable discussion.
I sat down with philosopher and author Dr. Stephen Hicks to unpack the West’s trajectory from medieval Christianity to modern progressivism. We explore the psychological fallout of online information overload and a failing education system that is fueling a socialist resurgence.
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How to reform education.
New York City public schools are approaching $40,000 per pupil per year in spending. Do the math on that. If you had a ten-student microschool and got that money directly, you'd have $400,000 per year to educate ten students. You could rent a beautiful facility and have money
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Philosophers insulting other philosophers, in this case, Alexander Dugin going after Ayn Rand. I cover Rand and Dugin in my Philosophy of Politics course, devoting a lecture to each. The two really are opposite in content, style, and character, so I invite you to compare and
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Business is a value-intensive human enterprise, and doing it well calls upon our highest virtues. Syllabus and Trailer for my new, eight-lecture course: https://t.co/MDlNZfbUJe
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Well said.
I spoke with @LaulPatricia about Marxism: One is: What’s remarkable is that Marxism has been tried. Now, of course, defenders of Marxism say it hasn’t really been tried anywhere, but certainly the people who implemented it claimed they were implementing Marxism. And this is a
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New course.
Professor Stephen Hicks’ nine-hour course: Business Leadership Ethics, is available now. In this course, @SRCHicks explores the philosophical foundations of entrepreneurship and business leadership, examining how moral frameworks—egoism, altruism, and predation—shape leadership
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A favorite from Frederick Douglass about self-respect and independence. More here: https://t.co/WBIfXLPwD1
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Open College with Dr. Stephen Hicks EP59 | Liberal Education’s Postmodern Critics #Philosophy #podcast Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Youtube & more. @SRCHicks @CorrectFm @OpenCollegePod @BJdichter Listen on Spotify https://t.co/TlsykCu4ws
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@JohnCleese Yeah exactly, tell that to the 2 million Chinese Canadians who fled Chinese communism and Hong Kong prior to 1997.
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Live Now | Not On Record EP#196 | What You Do After an Allegation Can Ruin You - Even If You’re Innocent @NeubergerLaw @d2davison @crimlawyer01 @CorrectFm @NatTelegraph @maxsilverberg @bjdichter @opencollegepod Youtube https://t.co/Q5I6hjWr5N Rumble https://t.co/HoVyUhuVrH
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Sponsored by EasyDNS [https://easydns.com/NotOnRecord](https://easydns.com/NotOnRecord) How should courts treat an accused person’s *post-offence* behaviour apologies, emotional reactions, “weird” tex
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Questions: *How many were nudged into college when other options would have been better for them? *How many got high grades easily without learning much? *How many majored in relatively useless subjects, i.e., ones that neither enriched them personally nor increased their
BREAKING: Americans with four-year college degrees now account for a record 25.3% of U.S. unemployment. The percentage has doubled since 2008, leaving more than 1.9 million degree-holders age 25+ currently unemployed. This is the highest level since data collection began in
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Important update on the financing: 10% down, paid with fiat money. 90% bond issue, payments covered by lease income. Easy-peasy. Follow me for more financial advice.
Straightforward solution: Canada buys Greenland for a jillion dollars and leases it to the US. As a sweetener, we throw in a case of maple syrup for everyone in on the deal.
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Is peace or war the natural state of man? Do men fight primarily over material possessions or over women? Reprising these instructive wars among the Yanomamö of Brazil/Venezuela and among the anthropologists in the USA. https://t.co/7h2zT3g40O
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