The Jolly Libertarian reviews Explaining Postmodernism
I like this guy. The reviews’ elements here.
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Private jets and public servants — instructive contrast
High-level politician uses private jets and makes taxpayers foot the bill. One side criticizes him for that. High-level politician uses private jets and pays for it herself. The other side criticizes her for that.
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Immanual Kant versus Liberalism — my three Cato articles collected
Here are my three collected posts in the Cato Unbound series: Does Kant Have a Place in Classical Liberalism? How Kant’s political views are a mix of liberal and anti-liberal claims, but, more importantly, how his fundamental distinction between noumenal and phenomenal selves means that philosophically he has no defense of practical liberalism.
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Nancy MacLean’s attack — lazy jury fallacy or pomo strategy?
Jonathan Adler’s lengthy list of problems in Nancy MacLean’s book, which seems to be about a social construct labelled “James Buchanan.” What explains how such a book could be written by a professor and published by an academic press? (1) Trevor Burrus suggests that it could be the Lazy Jury Fallacy at work. (2) I
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The Design Argument — six critical questions
The core idea of the Design Argument is that to explain the cause-and-effect order of the natural world, we must appeal to a divine Designer: the complexity of reality cannot be the product of random chance, so there must be a powerful intelligence behind it all that brought order into existence and keeps the operation
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Does modern capitalism beget bureaucracy?
Grégoire Canlorbe is a French intellectual entrepreneur. He currently resides in Paris. He interviewed me for The Foundation for Economic Education. Excerpt below: Grégoire Canlorbe: A second criticism, initially formulated by Michel Foucault in his 1979 lectures at the College de France, is that modern capitalist society and “disciplinary techniques” are completely bound with each other.
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Why Postmodernism? — politics plus epistemology
The thesis of my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault: More information also at my: Explaining Postmodernism page. Credit: Matheus Pacini made this graphic meme. Here’s his group’s Facebook page.
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Camus, Sisyphus, and the Meaning of Life
My video meditation on Albert Camus’s “The Myth of Sisyphus” below or at YouTube:
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