Philosophy

The 20th century’s most famous philosopher addresses this question: Why do philosophy, if none of its questions are answerable? Related: Others in the Philosophers, Explained series: Catharine MacKinnon on censoring pornography as violence.Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels on overthrowing capitalism. John Stuart Mill on free speech. Benito Mussolini and Giovanni Gentile on the philosophy of […]

The tyrant of Syracuse, Dionysius I (died 367 BCE), liked having intellectuals and creative types in his court. Plato the philosopher, Philistus the historian, and Philoxenus the poet were in his circle at various times. Yet the tyrant was capricious—especially when he thought his own literary accomplishments were under-appreciated. Philoxenus once voiced a negative opinion

The interview is In English, with Swedish overlay: modernity anti-modernity, rationality and illogic, freedom for all and cynical power games. I was interviewed by the smart and well-prepared Dr. Richard Sörman for the RIKS channel on the occasion of a Swedish printing of Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault (English text here,

Then: image is from Buenos Aires a few years ago, when Javier Milei (economist, Argentina), Axel Kaiser (economist, Chile), and I gave talks at an event. Both Kaiser and Milei gave great talks, in my judgment, Milei adding his trademark dramatic flair. Now: My Twitter/X Spaces discussion from a couple of weeks ago, when economist