My 10-year publishing agreement with Ockham’s Razor Publishing has ended. ORM published the expanded edition from 2010-2015 and then from 2015 to 2025. Prior to that, Scholargy published the first edition from 2004 to 2009. We’re thinking about a 25th Anniversary edition, with additional material on developments in postmodernism’s theory and its applied activism. I

I’ve been running an informal contest to find the longest sentence ever written by a philosopher. Chelsea, a reader from the U.K., sends us this phenomenal 174-word sentence from the Critique of Pure Reason (B158-159, Guyer translation): “Just as for the cognition of an object distinct from me I also need an intuition in addition

In connection with my new book, I will be in Madrid this week and giving two university talks:  * ​Tuesday, September 22: Universidad Francisco Marroquín (7 pm) ​* Wednesday​, September 23: Universidad Complutense de Madrid​ (5:30 pm) 

This week I will be in Portugal to speak on the philosophers of the new illiberal right: “Intellectually, the illiberal left are on the defensive. Yet we face a disquieting rise of illiberal right/conservative movements. Who is influential among them and why? Professor Hicks will present essentialized themes from an American (Deneen), an Englishman (Scruton)

Lecciones de Filosofía Política: Vol I: De la Revolución francesa a la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Spanish Edition published in Madrid by Publicaciones del Orden Espontáneo. Translated by Professor Gustavo Morales Alsona. Prologue by Professor Miguel Anxo Bastos. Las grandes transformaciones políticas no surgen únicamente de revoluciones, guerras, elecciones o crisis económicas. Detrás de ellas hay

St. Benedict (500s), according to St. Gregory: “Benedict fought valiantly to forget the woman ‘the memory of whom the wicked spirit put into his mind, and by that memory so mightily inflamed with concupiscence the soul of God’s servant … that, almost overcome with pleasure, he was of a mind to forsake the wilderness. But

On National Socialism, quotations from leading intellectuals. First, what kind of socialism did the National Socialists want? In the 1920s, they were influenced by Oswald Spengler and Moeller van den Bruck. In the 1930s, their top philosopher: Link to text of Heidegger’s speech here. In 1940, an unsympathetic socialist assessed it this way: Link to

1. “He had delusions of adequacy. “ — Walter Kerr 2. “He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.“ — Winston Churchill3. “I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.“ — Clarence Darrow4. “He has never been known to use a word