Liberalism Pro and Con is a primer. I identify the most influential arguments for liberalism and present them in their strongest form, with supporting quotations from leading thinkers who make that argument. I then do the same with the most influential arguments against liberalism. Before you decide your politics, you must know these arguments. The […]
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I’m happy to announce that Faro Editorial out of São Paulo, Brazil, will be producing a Portuguese edition of the Expanded Edition of Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault. The translation is being done now and the finished product will be published in 2021. The book’s thesis: The failure of epistemology made
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Culture Wars 2.0 and my themes: The Meanings of Life — After Postmodernism — Justice Warriors. Hosted by True Arrow Events. Meanwhile, the Australian edition of my Explaining Postmodernism book was the publisher’s #3 bestseller for 2019.
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My livestream The Religion Course — concludes this Wednesday at thinkspot. What is religion? Is it true? Is it good? If neither necessarily, is it useful? Does the meaning of life depend upon religion? For example, here are some candidates from major intellectuals: “The essence of religion consists in the feeling of absolute dependence.” (Theologian
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Professor Mario Rizzo presents his new book Escaping Paternalism (Cambridge University Press, 2020). The book is co-authored with Glen Whitman. I love the cover image. Rizzo is a professor in the Economics Department at New York University and a deep-thinking scholar. Here’s his one-hour lecture at Brown University on the book’s themes:
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Philosopher Marc Champagne has published what I believe to be the first scholarly work on Jordan Peterson’s overall worldview. I read the book in manuscript and liked it and contributed a back-cover blurb for it: “Philosopher Marc Champagne’s analytic skills are impressively on display as he presents and variously dissects, agrees with, and critiques Jordan Peterson’s
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For use in my courses, additions to my Texts in Philosophy page. General Friedrich von Bernhardi, excerpts from Germany and the Next War (1911). C. S. Lewis. “Social Morality”, Book 3, Chapter 3 of Mere Christianity (1952). [On Christian ethics, leftism, socialism, money, and the charging of interest.] George Orwell, “Review of The Totalitarian Enemy
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