Dr. Stephen Hicks

So French Revolution to the World War II. The next course picks up at the end of World War II and the Cold War, and it starts with Rand and Robert Nozick. At the height of the Cold War, how can we defend some sort of robust liberal capitalism in this context? So it starts with them, goes on to John Rawls. We also talk about James Buchanan, who won the Nobel Prize for public choice economics.

We also do some international, because we're living in a global society, that cliche and so on. But the Islamist revolutions and the philosopher, the Egyptian philosopher, Said Qutba, whose brother was a professor of Osama bin Laden, extraordinarily influential. Ayatollah Khomeini had Qutba's works translated into Farsi before he became Ayatollah.

We also do some international, because we're living in a global society, that cliche and so on. But the Islamist revolutions and the philosopher, the Egyptian philosopher, Said Qutba, whose brother was a professor of Osama bin Laden, extraordinarily influential. Ayatollah Khomeini had Qutba's works translated into Farsi before he became Ayatollah.

We also do some international, because we're living in a global society, that cliche and so on. But the Islamist revolutions and the philosopher, the Egyptian philosopher, Said Qutba, whose brother was a professor of Osama bin Laden, extraordinarily influential. Ayatollah Khomeini had Qutba's works translated into Farsi before he became Ayatollah.

We go to Russia and the rise of Putin and the role of the thinking of Alexander Dugin in that framework as well. And then we end that course with a contemporary version of conservatism, Roger Scruton's meaning of conservatism, which came out a few years before he died. So the idea here is to say these are the big names.

We go to Russia and the rise of Putin and the role of the thinking of Alexander Dugin in that framework as well. And then we end that course with a contemporary version of conservatism, Roger Scruton's meaning of conservatism, which came out a few years before he died. So the idea here is to say these are the big names.

We go to Russia and the rise of Putin and the role of the thinking of Alexander Dugin in that framework as well. And then we end that course with a contemporary version of conservatism, Roger Scruton's meaning of conservatism, which came out a few years before he died. So the idea here is to say these are the big names.

political theories you need to know, but they're all big name ones because they have philosophical bite behind them by some very deep people and integrating that with the history in each case, how some of them are urging history in a certain direction or trying to make sense of major events like French Revolution or the Cold War or the attacks in 9-11.

political theories you need to know, but they're all big name ones because they have philosophical bite behind them by some very deep people and integrating that with the history in each case, how some of them are urging history in a certain direction or trying to make sense of major events like French Revolution or the Cold War or the attacks in 9-11.

political theories you need to know, but they're all big name ones because they have philosophical bite behind them by some very deep people and integrating that with the history in each case, how some of them are urging history in a certain direction or trying to make sense of major events like French Revolution or the Cold War or the attacks in 9-11.

That's my ambition.

That's my ambition.

That's my ambition.

Fair enough.

Fair enough.

Fair enough.

I will dive into it. Thanks.

I will dive into it. Thanks.

I will dive into it. Thanks.

Thank you.