The absurdist Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1969. He’s most famous for Waiting for Godot (a play in which pretty much nothing happens in the first act, only to be repeated in the second), was also the author of a novel entitled Molloy. Here is the main character, Molloy, reminiscing
The anti-Romantics — Samuel Beckett edition Read More »
Anti-Semites, postmodernists, and alt-rightists as peas in a pod.
Online trolls’ rhetoric, Sartre’s anticipation Read More »
On this week’s Current Events program with Kelley and Salsman, hosted by Oddino.
Chauvin verdict, Gun control, Covid-19 successes Read More »
In response to other socialists who claim that National Socialism isn’t real socialism because it doesn’t outright nationalize everything. Hitler: “Of what importance is all that, if I range men firmly within a discipline they cannot escape? Let them own land or factories as much as they please. The decisive factor is that the State,
An ethics question: Suppose that you’re part of an organization that: (1) spends other people’s money, (2) which is taken from them by threat of force. Further, (3) your organization hasn’t produced a balanced budget for decades, and (4) it uses accounting techniques that would send most people to jail. Now the question: What is
Politicians who lecture us about money Read More »
Apparently the letters of my name are quite fertile in generating significant possibilities. * Highlighting some art: Sketch He Pins * Due to showering regularly: Stench He Skip * When writing about some kinds of art: Kitsch He Pens * A game followed by a nap: Chess Then Kip * When getting a sun burn:
Anagrams of “Stephen Hicks” Read More »
How different are Stephen Hicks’s and Jordan Peterson’s views on the origins of the Enlightenment? Was Christianity essential or a hindrance?
“A difference with Jordan Peterson on Enlightenment foundations” [Five-minute excerpt] Read More »
Well said, and a strong analogy: “Socialism is no more successful in ethics than in economics, and for similar reasons: it sacrifices the future to the present by discouraging innovation and inverts the source of positive marginal change by moving it from the individual to society. Ethical wealth, like economic wealth, will be a function
Socialism as *moral* failure (Den Uyl and Rasmussen quotation) Read More »