Anti-theocratic-authoritarian protests in Iran are good news for real liberals everywhere. So it’s important that we encourage the spread of human freedom and dignity — and shame those whose silence reveals either hypocrisy or cowardice. I’m happy that two of my books have been translated into Persian/Farsi and published in Iran: Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and
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I’m happy to announce that translators Ayoub Salhi and Anouar El Mekki have finished their translation of my book into Arabic. The resulting work should be published later this year. Details forthcoming. Meanwhile, here is the information page about all of the translations, editions, and reviews of Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to
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In our ongoing contest to find the longest sentence in Philosophy, careful reader Matthias Brinkmann alerts me to a new candidate — this 286-worder from Kant’s Practical Philosophy: “Now, if ends must first be given to us, in relation to which alone the concept of perfection (whether internal in ourselves or external in God) can
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My site’s year-end statistics are pretty much in. Here are the most popular posts for 2017: 1. Interviewed by Jordan B. Peterson. 2. The lecture that launched my Explaining Postmodernism book project: at the Atlas Society conference, University of Colorado. 3. Plato on censoring artists — a summary. 4. From Marxism to Postmodernism: an excerpt
For use in my courses, additions to my Texts in Philosophy page. Frédéric Bastiat, “A Petition from the Candlemakers about Unfair Competition from the Sun” (1845). Marilyn Frye, “Oppression”, from The Politics of Reality. (1983). Mother Teresa, excerpt “On Prayer”, from No Greater Love (1987). Dualism and Naturalism quotations from Martin Luther, St. Paul, 1
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[My annual re-posting for this season’s festivities.] We all know the tale of Ebenezer Scrooge. Or do we? Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol has generated an astonishing variety of interpretations, and as with most rich tales the interpretations often tell us as much about the interpreter as the original story. The legend of Robin Hood
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This is a song to celebrate banks, Because they are full of money and you go into them and all you hear is clinks and clanks, Or maybe a sound like the wind in the trees on the hills, Which is the rustling of the thousand dollar bills. Most bankers dwell in marble halls, Which
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At Britain’s CHURCH and STATE site, my article “Is Religion Worth Arguing About?” has been republished. Thanks to Declan and Lola Heavey for selecting it. The article is followed by a series of video clips with me on postmodernism and real education. [Related: “How to Tame Religious Terrorists.” All of my articles at CHURCH and
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