Reprising this recommendation of four books that focus on the postmodern challenge in specific intellectual areas: * Literature: John Ellis, Literature Lost: Social Agendas and the Corruption of the Humanities. * History: Keith Windschuttle, The Killing of History. * Science: Noretta Koertge, editor, A House Built on Sand: Exposing Postmodernist Myths About Science. * Law: […]
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On the intellectual weakness but institutional destructiveness of Critical Race Theory: Judge Richard Posner wrote this strong review (PDF) of two law professors’ Beyond All Reason. Farber and Sherry’s is one of four books that I recommend frequently for those studying the postmodern challenge in specific intellectual areas: * Literature: John Ellis, Literature Lost: Social
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David Thompson is a critic and commentator with strong interests in pop culture and postmodernism. His interview with me based on my book Explaining Postmodernism is now posted at his site. Previous interviews I’ve done on postmodernism’s themes and roots were published in Navigator and New Individualist magazines. The following scholarly reviews of the book
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4/28 John Stossel proposes: consistently undersell capitalism. And marketing professor Jerry Kirkpatrick, author of debunks subliminal advertising. 4/27 Beautiful photographs of Cultural and religious control-freaks and controlling yet more “inappropriate” sexual expression. And of course this is entrepreneurial transformation of American business. Key quotation: “since 1980, more than 5 million jobs have disappeared from Fortune
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3/30 Here is an occasionally snarky interview with the gutsy Christopher Hitchens and Infidel was published in February. 3/28 You must watch this 30-minute video of a debate at the University of Toronto: worried about the criminalization of business: cases that should be handled in civil suits are increasingly being taken to criminal courts. Kirkendall
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