Sexism or Racism? The Best Quick Responses
Self-esteem is 90% of the battle.
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Philosophy
John Gray in *Explaining Postmodernism*
British philosopher John Gray claims: “We live today amid the dim ruins of the Enlightenment project, which was the ruling project of the modern period.” For more on the implications of Gray’s pessimistic assessment for postmodernism, see p. 23 of my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism from Rousseau to Foucault. Information about other editions and translations is
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Spanish translation of *Nietzsche and the Nazis* — Kindle edition
I’m happy to announce that the print Spanish translation is now also available in Kindle e-book version. Nietzsche y los Nazis Traducido al Español por Luis Kofman.Barbarroja Ediciones, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2016.Inglés y otras traducciones.
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Jordan Peterson confronts postmodernism — transcript at Real Clear Politics
Yes, and I appreciate the recommendation: You need to understand postmodernism, because that’s what you’re up against. You’re up against it far more than you know or think, and it’s a much more well-developed and pervasive, pernicious, nihilistic, intellectually attractive doctrine than has yet come to public realization.” Related: One year ago today, Professor Peterson
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Montessori and Objectivism — mini-course
As part of this full lecture on Objectivist philosophy of education and its intimate connections to Montessori’s system, here is the conclusion-drawing section for those already familiar with Montessori: For the full context — overviewing Rand’s and Montessori’s major ideas — begin here: Source: My 15-lecture video course on Philosophy of Education. The Objectivism and
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Friedrich Nietzsche in Explaining Postmodernism
Friedrich Nietzsche on why the rise of the philosophers meant the fall of man: Once reason took over, men “no longer possessed their former guides, their regulating, unconscious and infallible drives: they were reduced to thinking, inferring, reckoning, co-ordinating cause and effect, these unfortunate creatures; they were reduced to their ‘consciousness,’ their weakest and most
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Postmodernism’s Dangerous History | Stephen Hicks and Stefan Molyneux discuss
[Update: YouTube banned Stefan Molyneux’s channel in 2020.] Our full interview from June of 2018. (I was sick with a cold and hadn’t slept, but I’m happy with the content. Though maybe not, as one of the commenters says “I believe this guy is a secret Christian” while another says I’m an “uninformed, materialist, socialist
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Will the Alt-Right make the Left embrace the Enlightenment?
[Reposting from its first publication at EveryJoe.] Is a seismic change rumbling through Left-wing circles? In the hard-Left Jacobin magazine, two young philosophers bemoan their discovery that postmodern strategies have now been captured by the hateful and hated Alt-Right — and so in reaction they propose that socialists embrace the philosophy of the Enlightenment.[1] President Donald
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