Philosophy

For use in my courses, additions to my Texts in Philosophy page. Alan M. Dershowitz, “Shouting ‘Fire!’”, The Atlantic (1989). Robert Heilbroner, “What Is Socialism?”, Dissent Magazine (1978). Niccolò Machiavelli, “On Whether It Is Better to Be Loved or Feared,” The Prince (1513). Ayn Rand, “Philosophy: Who Needs It” (1974).

My discussion with Glenn Beck ranged over capitalism and socialism, the ethics needed for a free society, Greek virtues, intolerance and indoctrination in education, Ayn Rand’s egoism and her view of charity, whether a meaningful life requires transcending failure, the differences between Antifa and Nazi Brownshirts, whether the National Socialist really were socialist, postmodernism, whether

I’m in Gdańsk, Poland, this week for an interview at the excellent Museum of the Second World War, in connection with a documentary they are producing. The museum’s director, Dr. Karol Nawrocki, and I will discuss the following questions: 1) Why did Nazism stem from Germany and not from any other country? And why did

Here is an eleven-minute audio excerpt with subtitles in Spanish — on how Friedrich Nietzsche’s analysis of ressentiment psychology now applies to segments of the postmodern left. The 1998 lecture at a TAS conference at the University of Colorado, Boulder, fed into my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault. And here is