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Stephen R. C. Hicks
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Stephen R. C. Hicks
Peterson Academy
@SRCHicks
Philosophy, Business Ethics, and Entrepreneurship
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    Stephen R. C. Hicks
    Peterson Academy
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    Young people: The USA currently has about 24 *million* millionaires. Why not you? Give yourself a decade or two to work hard and work smart, and you can become one too.
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    Stephen R. C. Hicks
    Peterson Academy
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    Apr 16, 2022
    Trust the social science.
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    Stephen R. C. Hicks
    Peterson Academy
    @SRCHicks
    Nov 10, 2025
    “The only student of mine I was ever intimidated by. He was so quick. There was a seminar for advanced students in Zürich that I was teaching and von Neumann was in the class. I came to a certain theorem, and I said it is not proved and it may be difficult. Von Neumann didn't say
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    Stephen R. C. Hicks
    Peterson Academy
    @SRCHicks
    Jan 13, 2024
    The new generation, I hope.
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    Stephen R. C. Hicks
    Peterson Academy
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    Jun 7, 2025
    More capitalism vs. More socialism.
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    Stephen R. C. Hicks
    Peterson Academy
    @SRCHicks
    Mar 23, 2023
    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 2000 times. So a q: How should a layperson process constant doomsday claims that don't materialize?
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    Stephen R. C. Hicks
    Peterson Academy
    @SRCHicks
    Feb 26, 2023
    Well said.
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    Stephen R. C. Hicks
    Peterson Academy
    @SRCHicks
    Jan 21, 2023
    "Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book." - Cicero (circa 40 BCE)
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    Stephen R. C. Hicks
    Peterson Academy
    @SRCHicks
    Jun 17, 2025
    Foucault visit Iran in 1978 and praised its budding theocratic revolution as a site of resistance against the liberal-capitalist West he hoped to subvert. One reason why the usual suspects are still supporting the Iranian regime. I have a lecture on Foucault's post-modernism and
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    Stephen R. C. Hicks
    Peterson Academy
    @SRCHicks
    Feb 7, 2024
    Where slavery abolished in the modern world, from first to latest.
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    Stephen R. C. Hicks
    Peterson Academy
    @SRCHicks
    Mar 25, 2023
    On the constant doom-saying stephenhicks.org/2023/03/25/on-… 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 ...
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    Stephen R. C. Hicks
    Peterson Academy
    @SRCHicks
    Jun 16, 2021
    Well made.
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    Stephen R. C. Hicks
    Peterson Academy
    @SRCHicks
    Apr 11, 2025
    Well-conceived diagram.
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    Stephen R. C. Hicks
    Peterson Academy
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    Sep 13, 2025
    Personal anecdote: I was in class at my university in Canada when it was announced that Ronald Reagan had been shot. No one cheered but my professor and several students had big smiles and were delighted at the news. I was an apolitical philosophy student at the time. Their
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