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 »
Episode 2 in my Open College with Dr. Stephen Hicks podcast series. Audio link: iTunes Soundcloud Stitcher Topics and times: History // Three options: coincidence, unintended consequences, intended // Quoting Marx, Engels, Lenin, Dzerzhinsky, Trotsky, Hobsbawm // Environmental determinism in Marxism // Plasticity of human nature in Marxism // Economic circumstances as fundamental social-environmental forces //
Violent Politics—the Lesson of Marxist *Philosophy* [Open College series] Read More »
Reposting for weekend listeners, the first episode of my Open College with Dr. Stephen Hicks podcast series. Audio links: iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/open-college-podcast/id1438324613 Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/opencollegepodcast/open-college-1-free-speech Topics and Times: What a meaningful life requires: [00:00 — 03:31] Far left and far right on metaphysics, human nature, and ethics [03:31 — 10:35] Walt Whitman quotation [09:28 — 10:35] Why the authoritarian left [10:35
Open College launched: “Free Speech: Why the *Philosophy* Matters” Read More »
“The all-destroyer” — was how Moses Mendelssohn described his contemporary Immanuel Kant. For more on the context for Mendelssohn’s strong conclusion, see p. 50 of my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism from Rousseau to Foucault. Information about other editions and translations is available at this dedicated page.
Moses Mendelssohn in Explaining Postmodernism Read More »
The first episode of my Open College with Dr. Stephen Hicks podcast series. Audio links: iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/open-college-podcast/id1438324613 Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/opencollegepodcast/open-college-1-free-speech Topics: What a meaningful life requires // Far left and far right on metaphysics, human nature, and ethics // Walt Whitman quotation // Why the authoritarian left? // How we got to where we are now // Galileo
“Free Speech: Why the *Philosophy* Matters” [Open College series] Read More »
I’ll be speaking on the theme of “Combating Authoritarianism” at this weekend’s conference. Thanks to SFL’s Cheyanne Durham and the team at The Atlas Society for making this possible.
Upcoming talk: University of Florida, Students for Liberty Read More »
“It is not as easy as you imagine to be a pure egoist, and none such have ever succeeded. The apparent egoism of great nations and of great men is the inevitable sternness with which anyone who has his life fixed on some undertaking must bear himself. When we are really going to do something
Ortega y Gasset on egoism and dedication to purpose Read More »