Nietzsche Perfectly Forecasts the Postmodernist Left
Eleven minutes excerpted from a 1998 lecture — below or at YouTube.
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Newberry reviews Feldman sculpture *The Future in Our Hands*
Stuart Mark Feldman’s The Future in Our Hands By Michael Newberry Stuart Mark Feldman’s sculpture group, The Future in Our Hands (1992, Reservoir Park, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) is four life-size bronze statues placed around a large outdoor fountain. There are two males and two females, life-sized, each playing with a child. (To my knowledge, this is the
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St. Benedict on monks sleeping together communally
I’ve always smiled at the thoughtfulness of St. Benedict’s very detailed rules for monastic living. Chapter 22 of The Rule takes up “The Sleeping Arrangements of the Monks.” In keeping with the spirit of communalism, Benedict stipulates: “If possible, all are to sleep in one place, but should the size of the community preclude this,
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My discussion with Jordan Peterson, August 17
Mark the date: Beginning at 1 p.m. Eastern on the 17th, Professor Peterson and I will discuss university politicization, the pronoun wars, political correctness, and other manifestations of postmodernism. The discussion will be recorded and released on social media. Our initial point of contact was my book Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to
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Defeatist psychology on the Left
Half a century ago, a despairing left intellectual wrote: “The Millenium Has Been Cancelled.” Edward Hyams was reacting to the many total failures of socialism in theory and practice, as well as to the apparent endurance of some sort of liberal capitalism.[1] In a recent review of a far-leftist book — Enzo Traverso’s Left-Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History,
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Lateral Conversations — Amarque interviews me on campus unrest and rhetoric
German philosopher Tom Amarque interviewed me about campus unrest, language and rhetoric, and the great modern versus postmodern debate. “Stephen Hicks is a Professor of Philosophy and author of the very good book Explaining Postmodernism. Logically, we talk a lot about the history, aspects, traits and problems of postmodernism. You can find other conversations with the
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SOTT Radio interview, July 2017
My four-way interview on postmodernism, its contemporary manifestations, and the relevance of abstract philosophy to practical affairs. Lead interviewer Harrison Koehli directs this hour-long conversation.
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Whose Bathroom Is It, Anyway? [Good Life series]
What happens when you mix politics, bathrooms, and sexuality? Let the joking begin. A politician walks into a transgender bar. [Fill in the blank here.] Afterwards, he tries to explain: “I really only wanted to use the bathroom.” Ha ha. But the serious business is the busybody politicians in North Carolina and Tennessee who have
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