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The argument claims, Socialism is motivated by anti-rich, anti-success envy, and that’s simply an illegitimate motivation. The envy-charge against socialism is that it institutionalizes envy. How does this compare with liberal capitalist countries? Is there more or less potential for envy to flourish in a liberal capitalist society? Apple Podcasts https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/open-college-p...

Open College with Dr. Stephen R.C. Hicks | Episode #10 - Bhopal: Government Subsidized Environmental Apocalypse Bhopal is a city in central India, and late in 1984 chemicals in large quantities spilled out of an industrial plant there, killing, maiming, and damaging tens of thousands of people. The long-term estimated death toll from the 1984 Bhopal disaster in India is about 16,000 people, making...

The puzzle of envy and how it impacts our lives. Why does envy cause some of us to do destructive things? How do envy differ from jealousy? Apple Podcasts https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/open-college-podcast/id1438324613?mt=2 SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/opencollegepodcast Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/possibly-correct/open-college-podcast-with-dr-stephen-rc-hicks Google Play...

Did government contribute to one of America’s greatest environmental disasters? What is eminent domain? Were any politicians or government officials prosecuted for criminal neglect? Apple Podcasts https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/open-college-podcast/id1438324613?mt=2 SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/opencollegepodcast Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/possibly-correct/open-college-pod...

The means of production or the means of reproduction. Where does socialism draw the line? Apple Podcasts https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/open-college-podcast/id1438324613?mt=2 SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/opencollegepodcast Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/possibly-correct/open-college-podcast-with-dr-stephen-rc-hicks Google Play https://play.google.com/music/m/Iuramibvl3n32ojiut...

The story of the The Will to Power has the makings of a dramatic documentary film. It has a tormented genius, Friedrich Nietzsche, already recognized as one of the great minds of his generation, but forced to retire early for health problems. Living an itinerant life wandering Europe on a meager pension, he nonetheless working vigorously on his iconoclastic philosophy, to culminate in a work he su...

Open College with Dr. Stephen R.C. Hicks #5 - Conservatives Get Out of The Dark Ages It's a faux pas in some intellectual circles -- mostly conservative ones -- to say that there was a Dark Ages in European history. But the mainstream view has been that the Middle Ages were a dark period in Western history. What were the "Middle Ages" in the middle of? Between the Greco-Roman era and the Renaissan...

The post modernist British thinker John Gray wrote in his book, Enlightenment's Wake: “We live today amid the dim ruins of the Enlightenment project, which was the ruling project of the modern period.” Our culture as a failure, ruins, nadir. Did the enlightenment not live up to its promises? What is the standard for this claim? What does the data show us? Are we indeed living amongst dim ruins? Ap...

Political labeling is often sloppy and political movements are often big tent, but it’s important to keep up the effort to be precise so we know what each other is talking about. Precision is also important because sometimes those who accept some free-market policies do so for political expediency reasons, and that superficial acceptance can mask more fundamental suspicions or rejections of free m...

Our topic is the long history of violent far-left, especially Marxist, activism. Is it a coincidental that so much brutality emerged from Marx-inspired activists? Or is it accidental by-product of well-intentioned theory? Or is it a necessary and intended consequence of its principles? Leon Trotsky on Joseph Stalin in 1940: "Under all conditions well-organized violence seems to him the shortest di...

Humans are smart beings — or potentially smart. Not instinctual or passive creatures. Active engagement and deep thinking. Life goals and strategy. Lots of information. Lots of experiment. And do it yourself. Extend that socially to meaningful relationships. Shared values. Degrees of intimacy from business acquaintances to friends to lovers and life partners. In common, all depend on exchange of i...

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