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Will the Alt-Right make the Left embrace the Enlightenment?

2 Comments / Philosophy, Politics /

[Reposting from its first publication at EveryJoe.] Is a seismic change rumbling through Left-wing circles? In the hard-Left Jacobin magazine, two young philosophers bemoan their discovery that postmodern strategies have now been captured by the hateful and hated Alt-Right — and so in reaction they propose that socialists embrace the philosophy of the Enlightenment.[1] President Donald […]

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“Will the Alt-Right Make the Left embrace the Enlightenment?” [Church and State]

2 Comments / Philosophy /

My “Will the Alt-Right Make the Left embrace the Enlightenment?” is now republished at Britain’s Church and State site: “Criticizing Enlightenment thought has become fashionable across the political spectrum. For the past several decades, more and more academics have called reason into question, especially the sort of rationalist worldview that emerged in the seventeenth and

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Political protest in a “post-fact era”

4 Comments / Political Ethics series /

[Re-posted from TRI.] A protester was shot at the University of Washington during a clash between rival factions — one faction physically blocking an audience from hearing a speech, the other faction seeking to hear a rabble-rousing orator. The orator was Milo Yiannopoulos, a leading spokesman for the alt-right movement, a revitalized and muscularized version of nationalist

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Alt-Right versus Hard Left — Forcing a Return to the Enlightenment?

4 Comments / Politics /

Alt-Right philosopher Jason Reza Jorjani is taken on by hard-left philosophers at Jacobin magazine. My commentary article begins this way: Is a seismic change rumbling through Left-wing circles? In the hard-Left Jacobin magazine, two young philosophers bemoan their discovery that postmodern strategies have now been captured by the hateful and hated Alt-Right — and so in

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Political protest in a “post-fact era” [Commentary at TRI]

2 Comments / Philosophy, Politics, Right Insight /

At TRI, my commentary on the University of Washington shooting, Milo Yiannopoulos, postmodernism, and the alt right begins this way: “A protester was shot at the University of Washington during a clash between rival factions — one faction physically blocking an audience from hearing a speech, the other faction seeking to hear a rabble-rousing orator.

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