Philosophy

Los cuatro errores del papa Francisco sobre el liberalismo

Los cuatro errores del papa Francisco sobre el liberalismo El papa Francisco nos ha dado varios indicios de su posición acerca del liberalismo, pero su negatividad es cada vez más evidente. En su mensaje a la Sesión Plenaria de la Pontificia Academia de Ciencias Sociales, las críticas fueron directas y, a veces, crudas. Si bien el Pontífice tuvo algunos […]

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Michael Rectenwald (NYU) discussion

Full interview in June 2021. We discussed Dr. Rectenwald’s Springtime for Snowflakes, along with my Explaining Postmodernism, and this series of topics: 00:00 Intro 00:51 Is the current contemporary left Rousseauian? 03:56 Anti-reason, anti-truth movement 06:39 Postmodernism as a crisis of faith in Marxism 12:05 Herbert Marcuse & the Frankfurt School 14:13 Where are we

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“Stephen Hicks: The Leftist Racism Industry”

With interspersed video excerpts from KImberlé Crenshaw, Robin DiAngelo, and Grievance Studies hoaxters Helen Pluckrose, James Lindsay, and Peter Boghossian — interviewer Mike Nayna asks me about Critical Theory — what was imported from Freud, the Frankfurt School, the subversion of cognitive theory, and how was it applied to CRT. 11-minute excerpt: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbeCQis1kh7fEaOGPhG96SA Full interview

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DML: Frederick Douglass [Atlas Intellectuals]

This week we are introducing a new Atlas Intellectuals course on Slavery. Let’s see this DML on Frederick Douglass: “Socialism Is Slavery Of All To All” After escaping from slavery in Maryland, Douglass became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, gaining prestige for his oratory and critical writing against

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Friedman on market *and* government failures — which is worse?

“All economists—monetarists, Keynesians, or what-not—recognize that there is such a thing as market failure. I believe that what distinguishes economists is not whether they recognize market failure, but how much importance they attach to government failure, especially when government seeks to remedy what are said to be market failures. That difference in turn is related

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Foucault versus the facts of reality

Excerpt from Professor Raymond Tallis’s review of Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont, Intellectual Impostures: Postmodern Philosophers’ Abuse of Science (London: Profile Books, 1998). Also translated as Fashionable Nonsense. “Eventually the postmodern Theorists started to attract the attention of experts in the disciplines into which they had strayed. Linguists looked at their linguistics and found it littered

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