Amusing story about how best to corrupt someone: The Devil was once crossing a desert and came upon a remote spot where a holy hermit was being tormented by a some demons trying to disturb his equanimity. They tried the smells of tasty food and drink, offered him wealth and sexual pleasures, but the hermit […]
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Excerpt from Professor Raymond Tallis’s review of Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont, Intellectual Impostures: Postmodern Philosophers’ Abuse of Science (London: Profile Books, 1998). Also translated as Fashionable Nonsense. “Eventually the postmodern Theorists started to attract the attention of experts in the disciplines into which they had strayed. Linguists looked at their linguistics and found it littered
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I’m happy that Faro Editorial, out of Brazil has published Guerra cultural: Como o pós-modernismo criou uma narrativa de desconstrução do ocidente. (Culture War: How Postmodernism Created a Narrative of Deconstruction of the West). It’s a new translation of my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault, the thesis of which is: The
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Here’s a bootleg version of my Nietzsche and the Nazis documentary, which was first available at Netflix and on DVD. The book version came along a couple of years later. Official audiobook version is available here. The print edition is available here.
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For someone’s opinion to hurt, you first have to value their opinion. Think of it this way: If you think someone is a moron, then you don’t value their opinion and their moronic views don’t hurt you. And racism is moronic. So why be hurt by a racist’s insults? If a baboon could talk and
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Via Roderick Long, here are the opening lines from “Madame Guillotine” (from the Scarlet Pimpernel musical): I know the gutter, and I know the stink of the street;kicked like a dog, I have spat out the bile of defeat.All you beauties who towered above me,you who gave me the smack of your rod –now I
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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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We’re posting serially the transcripts of my Open College podcasts. Here’s the 18th. My second discussion with Professor Peterson ranges over postmodernism, language, power, and what makes for a genuine education. Open College podcast published a 40-minute audio excerpt of the discussion; the full video discussion is available at Dr. Peterson’s site. Here is a
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