Part of my extended conversation with Glenn Beck appeared on his television show on Tuesday, December 4. The nine-minute excerpt can be viewed at this link. The full conversation will be published soon, I understand.
Excerpt of Glenn Beck conversation: Socialism and Capitalism? Read More »
I’ll be speaking with the Three Kraters at their online video symposium. The symposium is “a gathering of academics, activists, authors, lawyers, professionals that drink, smoke, and discuss hard hitting topics.” Here also is their YouTube channel. From their flattering blurb about me: “Join us LIVE on Friday at 8:30 PM November 30th when we
Three Kraters Symposium — live discussion tonight Read More »
I was interviewed (remotely and in English, but with Spanish subtitles) for the Club de la Libertad‘s regional conference on economics. The 16-minute interview covers the origins of states, whether the state is a necessary evil or a necessary good, limiting the power of the state, how special-interest exception-making leads to our contemporary expansive state,
Club de la Libertad interview on political economy Read More »
My six-event tour ended with the huge, sold-out MBL conference in São Paulo. Amazing energy and enthusiasm among the young Brazilians at this pregnant transition time in their history. I spoke for an hour on postmodernism and the Left, following Janaína Paschoal, leader of the impeachment proceedings against the corrupt Dilma Rousseff, and followed by
Hasta luego, Argentina and Brazil Read More »
Audio links: iTunes Stitcher YouTube Topics: The drama of The Will to Power // My earlier position // What was Nietzsche’s sister’s actual involvement? // The book’s connection to the Nazis // The themes from The Will to Power Transcription: Forthcoming Sources: Robert Matthews, “‘Madness’ of Nietzsche was cancer not syphilis,” https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/3313279/Madness-of-Nietzsche-was-cancer-not-syphilis.html. Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power, Walter Kaufmann and R.
Nietzsche’s Sister and *The Will to Power* [Open College series] Read More »
Another datum on how postmodernism’s political reflexes are authoritarian — despite its high-theory-ambiguity stance — and that the theory provides rhetorical cover for politicization. Ken Wilber (via Joshua Zader): ‘”The end of any serious deconstructionist movement came with the Paul de Man debacle. On the morning of December 1, 1987, the New York Times reported
Ken Wilber on the postmodern Paul de Man debacle Read More »
I’ll be speaking at the Movimento Brasil Livre conference in São Paulo at 4 p.m. My topic is “Postmodernism’s Influence on the Contemporary Left”: What is postmodernism, and why is it so prevalent? How has it evolved and devolved over the last generation — especially among left intellectual and activist movements? Here’s some background on
Lecture in São Paulo, Brazil, November 24 Read More »
The well-prepared Ricardo Lopes from Portugal interviewed me on the charged question of Nietzsche’s relationship to the National Socialists.
Dissenter interview on Nietzsche, the Nazis, and the Pomo Read More »