Conversations | Stephen Hicks | Postmodernism and Nazism | With John Anderson “Prof. Stephen Hicks is a philosopher who is well known for his expertise in demystifying postmodernist ideology. His insights into postmodernism and political correctness have extra significance today as we see university progressive activism spilling out into the streets.” John Anderson was Deputy […]
The robots continue to free us from drudge work: Chipotle’s “Chippy” goes to work. Related: The Robots Will Free Us (Open College podcast).
Chipotle’s robot tortilla-making arm Read More »
In 1990, the year after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the year before the final collapse of the Soviet Union, Professor Robert Heilbroner wrote this: “But what spokesman of the present generation has anticipated the demise of socialism or the ‘triumph of capitalism’? Not a single writer in the Marxian tradition! Are there
Socialist professor Heilbroner: Who Predicted Socialism’s Failure? Read More »
From YouGov, a fascinating presentation of survey results: “Americans overestimate the size of minority groups and underestimate the size of most majority groups.”
Estimating: demographic realities versus perceptions Read More »
An ancient Turkish proverb says: When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn’t become a sultan.The palace becomes a circus. I recall that proverb, seemingly every election we have. Though it applies more generally: Places are what you make of them.
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La hermana de Nietzsche y The Will to Power [transcripción de Open College] Por Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D. Este episodio está inspirado en mi re-lectura de The Will to Power de Nietzsche. […]”cada palabra de The Will to Power fue escrita por Nietzsche en sus cuadernos de notas de 1883-1888″. Así que tiene ese
Mis artículos en español (my articles in Spanish): Nietzsche and his sister Read More »
For ease of browsing and navigation, this audio edition read by author Stephen R.C. Hicks now has timestamps for each chapter and section: 00:00:00 EXPLAINING POSTMODERNISM 00:00:25 CHAPTER ONE: What Postmodernism Is 00:02:22 The postmodern vanguard: Foucault, Lyotard, Derrida, Rorty 00:09:22 Modern and postmodern 00:12:22 Modernism and the Enlightenment 00:22:50 Postmodernism versus the Enlightenment 00:25:06
Audiobook with timestamping now (Explaining Postmodernism) Read More »
Worth reading: The full text of Young’s judicious 2022 article for Cato Policy Report. Related: Chapter One of Explaining Postmodernism for an overview of the Enlightenment against which the postmoderns are reacting. Full audiobook here. My Enlightenment Vision flowchart is pitched at a high level of abstraction, showing schematically how the philosophical revolution of the
Cathy Young’s “The Return of the Anti‐Enlightenment” Read More »