EP #32 | Bootleggers and Baptists or Snowflakes
Open College Podcast
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'Boot Leggers and Baptists'
stephen hicks: Boot leggers and baptists is a term of art that i think is explanatory of a significant amount of what goes on university campus activism. In the years leading up to 19 20, when prohibition was enacted, who did more to make the sale of alcoholic beverages illegal in the united states? Was it temperance activists, or was it chicago mobsters? Here, i as going to go on a little bit of a diversion, insert some family history. Pick up your copy of stephen hicks's book, ning post modernism, skepticism and socialism, from rousseau to fouco, available now on amazon dot com.
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