An ancient Turkish proverb says: When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn’t become a sultan.The palace becomes a circus. I recall that proverb, seemingly every election we have. Though it applies more generally: Places are what you make of them.
Turkish proverb about clowns in palaces Read More »
Shaw said many obnoxious things, but this is very good. And it fits modernist and postmodernist art well: “Why Art Became Ugly.”
Art and the mirror of one’s soul Read More »
For ease of browsing and navigation, this audio edition read by author Stephen R.C. Hicks now has timestamps for each chapter and section: 00:00:00 EXPLAINING POSTMODERNISM 00:00:25 CHAPTER ONE: What Postmodernism Is 00:02:22 The postmodern vanguard: Foucault, Lyotard, Derrida, Rorty 00:09:22 Modern and postmodern 00:12:22 Modernism and the Enlightenment 00:22:50 Postmodernism versus the Enlightenment 00:25:06
Audiobook with timestamping now (Explaining Postmodernism) Read More »
Worth reading: The full text of Young’s judicious 2022 article for Cato Policy Report. Related: Chapter One of Explaining Postmodernism for an overview of the Enlightenment against which the postmoderns are reacting. Full audiobook here. My Enlightenment Vision flowchart is pitched at a high level of abstraction, showing schematically how the philosophical revolution of the
Cathy Young’s “The Return of the Anti‐Enlightenment” Read More »
Choose your preferred cause (anti-Satan-worship, gay rights, Muhammed the prophet, veganism, anti-Communism, or whatever), and adapt this clause from Ontario’s Bill 67: “If the Minister learns, upon conducting an investigation or otherwise, that a member of the board does not have a proven commitment to racial equity in the education sector, the Minister shall require
How to revise Bill 67 (mandating CRT) to your preferred ideological values Read More »
For explanation, see my 10-minute discussion in this Current Events with Robert Tracinski:
Vladimir Putin has quoted Leontiev approvingly Read More »
My six-dimensional explanation, from the Philosophy of Education course series.
To define *Post-* Modernism, first define *Modernism* Read More »
Check out the abstract for this paper. Schoolkids six-years old and over were forced to wear masks, while kids five and under were not. Did the masks work? Excerpt: Findings: SARS-CoV-2 incidence was significantly lower in preschool than in primary education, and an age-dependent trend was observed. Children aged 3 and 4 showed lower outcomes
Spanish Mask Study Read More »