Recorded in Sweden, this interview (in English) with hosts Hanif Bali and Per Lindgren asks: What intellectual and historical sources led to the Culture Wars? The Patreon link for those who would like to sign up to their show: The book in English (audio, text) and in Swedish. Related:
God Ton podcast on the roots of the culture wars, with Hanif Bali and Per Lindgren Read More »
At the Hermann Hesse Museum in the south of Switzerland, where Hesse moved in 1919. Charming Medieval and Renaissance Italian-style neighborhood high in the hills overlooking the valley that overlooks Lugano. Here he wrote Siddhartha (1922), Steppenwolf (1927), The Glass Bead Game (1943). I have a future episode on Siddhartha coming out in the Philosophers.
Hermann Hesse house in Montagnola Read More »
Quince argumentos para el Capitalismo Liberal: Este post va a formar parte de una serie de argumentos del libro “Liberalism: Pro & Con” de Stephen Hicks en español. Pueden encontrar todos los argumentos que serán publicados en orden en el siguiente link: Liberalism: Pro & Con en español. EN CONTRA Argumento 11: La escasez significa
Like many other people, I am troubled by this phrase when I hear it. The usual scenario: A successful person makes a donation to a worthy cause but downplays any praise by saying “I’m only giving back.” The usual gentle rejoinder is to point out that the phrase assumes that the giver has taken something
Those of us in the democratic-republican West often find it impossible to understand how the world could go to war so often in the 20th century. We were raised in a culture that had internalized Locke, Jefferson, Mill, and others—for whom the goal of peace and respect for others’ rights to life, liberty, and property
Werner Sombart on heroes versus merchants Read More »
The Fountainhead‘s themes are independence and integrity. In Part One, novelist Ayn Rand’s primary purpose is to contrast the characters Howard Roark and Peter Keating. Here is a table summarizing the main events in each young man’s early career. Structurally, each plot event for Roark is matched by an opposite event for Keating. Roark’s career
Socialists in 1980: “We use walls, barbed wire, and men with guns to control our people. Deal with it.” Socialists in 2000: “We’re ashamed of the Wall, but now we’re democratic socialists. Trust us!” Socialists in 2020: “Just kidding. Bring back the Wall!” Source: Jacobin, the Marxist/neo-Marxist true-believer magazine. Related: Marx and Engels’ The Communist
Socialists and the Berlin Wall — disturbing changing attitudes Read More »
Capitalism: All humans have the rights to life, liberty, and property. Imperialism: We have the right to control you, take your stuff, and kill you if you resist. Imperialism existed for millennia before the revolutionary modern world of the last few centuries. During the modern era, both capitalism’s liberalism and imperialism’s authoritarianism existed within modernizing
Imperialism and Capitalism Read More »