Thanks to Mark V. Kormes for the link to ContraPoint’s vlog on envy. It’s an excellent diagnosis of this pathology — including apt insights from Aristotle, Nietzsche, Paglia, and other important names. And she’s even read Schoeck’s masterwork Envy. Contrapoints’s video is well worth your time for its coverage of envy’s many manifestations. Towards the […]
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Just imagine the reactions: “Love and sex are important, and children need to learn about healthy and dysfunctional relationships and their history. Accordingly, all schools should include CRT — that is, Christian Relationship Theory — in their curricula.”
“We need CRT for good love and sex” Read More »
James Lindsay and I focus on the influential Jean-Jacques Rousseau, whose anti-Enlightenment ideology is very much in fashion again after the disasters of Marxist socialism in the 20th century. Bad ideas don’t go away after failure — they get repackaged and re-introduced in other guises. Discussion hosted by Michael O’Fallon. From the description: When you
Is Rousseau now more important than Marx? (With O’Fallon and Lindsay) Read More »
The cartoon is politically correct. Benito Mussolini on his political roots: “It was inevitable that I should become a Socialist ultra, a Blanquist, indeed a communist. I carried about a medallion with Marx’s head on it in my pocket.” (Source: 1932 interview with biographer Emil Ludwig.) And then Mussolini’s predictions for the future: “it may
The first Fascist on the Left, socialism, and authoritarianism Read More »
Coming soon: A long-form discussion between me, James Lindsay (@ConceptualJames), and Michael O’Fallon (@SovMichael) on the roots of the intellectual mess behind our cultural messes.
James Lindsay, Michael O’Fallon, and I discuss the Bad Ideas Read More »
The three collectivisms are mutually reinforcing: “There comes a time when it will be obvious that socialism can only be carried out accompanied by nationalism and antisemitism.” (Adolf Hitler, “Why Are We Anti-Semites?” August 13, 1920 speech at the Hofbräuhaus, Munich).
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Lucky guess, or prescient? H.L. Mencken writing in 1938: Fascism is not likely to be identical with the kinds on tap in Germany, Italy and Russia; indeed it is very apt to come in under the name of anti-Fascism. Source: H.L. Mencken, The Baltimore Sun, November 6, 1983, p. 8. Quoted in L. K. Samuels’s
Fascist or Anti-fascist? Mencken’s prediction Read More »
Episode 51 in my Open College with Dr. Stephen Hicks podcast series. Many say: “I’m going to die, so what’s the point of anything?” Many say: “I’m going to die, so seize the day!” Why the opposite reactions to the same fact? All audio versions of the podcast are available free at my website, YouTube,
Would Immortality Be Worth It? [Open College podcast] Read More »