Philosophy

A Pakistani intellectual, Khurshid Ali Singay, in correspondence with me wrote about the situation there: “I can assure you again that in this side of the world, being an intellectual—secular or religious—means reading Marx or some Postmodernist thinkers. Marx is the hero both for the commoners and the literate. British philosophers, Empiricism and Liberalism are either taken […]

I’m happy to announce that my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault has been published in Pakistan. An Urdu edition, translated by Dr. Nazir Azad, was published in India in 2023. Urdu is the first or second language of 230 million people in Pakistan and India, so I am happy that it

James Orr defends “the conservative’s instinct for the particular over the universal, the empirical over the rational, the concrete over the abstract, the pragmatic over the ideal.” That is from Dr. Orr’s opening essay in this Reason Papers three-round debate with Dr. Stephen Hicks. Orr advocates and defends Conservatism; Hicks does the same for Liberalism.

George Orwell in 1944: “To admit that an opponent might be both honest and intelligent is felt to be intolerable. It is more immediately satisfying to shout that he is a fool or a scoundrel, or both, than to find out what he is really like. It is this habit of mind, among other things,