“Nasty political correctness as a tactic then makes perfect sense. Having rejected reason, we will not expect ourselves or others to behave… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Conflict resolution Copy Share Image
“Morally, there was the extreme disappointment at the failure of the classical socialist ideal. The great ideal of Marxism had failed to… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Failure Copy Share Image
“Yet it is also true, Hegel granted, that in many cases the individual’s freedoms and interests will genuinely be set aside, overridden,… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Freedom Copy Share Image
“Included in the Totalitarian/Killed by Own Government cell are the 10 to 12 million human beings killed by the German National Socialists… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share Image
“The implication is that logical or mathematical proofs cuts no ice in adjudicating competing claims of fact.[101] Analytic propositions “are entirely devoid… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Happiness Copy Share Image
“From the postmodern anti-realist metaphysics and anti-reason epistemology, the postmodern social consequences follow almost directly. Once we set aside reality and reason,… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Modernism Copy Share Image
“Our four figures, by contrast, voiced themes of strong collectivism in ethics and politics with calls for individuals to sacrifice for society,… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Collectivism Copy Share Image
“As it became impossible to believe in the morality of the Soviet Union, a shrinking contingent of true believers shifted their devotions,… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Religion Copy Share Image
“In American law, there is the Constitution and the whole body of common law precedent, and very little of that supports socialism.… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share Image
“Deconstruction as an educational strategy Here is an example. Kate Ellis is a radical gender feminist. Ellis, as she writes in… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Affirmative action Copy Share Image
“Socialists have generally been willing to grant that possibly, just possibly, capitalist economic production would outstrip socialist production. But no socialist has… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Capitalism Copy Share Image
“According to Herder, one cannot make such judgments. Judgments of good and bad are defined culturally and internally, in terms of each… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Dreams Copy Share Image
“Consider three more examples, this time of clashes between postmodernist theory and historical fact. Postmodernists say that the West is deeply racist,… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share Image