Philosophy

In an interview, Foucault explains what he wants from Marx: “What I desire—and it is here that my formulation has changed in relation to the one you cited—is not so much the defalsification and restitution of a true Marx, but the unburdening and liberation of Marx in relation to party dogma, which has constrained it, […]

Joseph Stalin put it this way when making a toast to his stable of tame Soviet writers: “The production of souls is more important than the production of tanks.” More information here. Related: To understand the source of this generation’s “Woke” indoctrinators: my Pope series lecture at Clemson University: “The Postmodern Critique of Liberal Education.”

In the mid-20th century intellectual world, JKG was widely regarded as an original and insightful thinker on economics and politics. He was professor at Harvard and author of widely read books such as The Affluent Society and The New Industrial State. While I was a university student in Canada (coincidentally, Galbraith and I both graduated

In colleges and universities, at least. Whether other institutions are picking up the slack and providing the humanities knowledge and experience young human beings need — I don’t have good data. Questions before forming hypotheses: * Have the other majors become more attractive to students, by offering more relevance, job prospects, a healthier and more

… as most American intellectuals remain captive to ideas generated in France and Germany a century ago. See: Nietzsche, Marx, Freud, Heidegger, Marcuse, and Foucault.

This image and caption are wonderfully revelatory about how many options young people (especially) now have and how our expectations for our work lives have risen. The caption is sarcastic, suggesting that settling for a job in such a place is beneath one’s expectations and aspirations. Great. Yet when we look closely at the work

A good, informal list: https://paulbloom.net/TeachingAdvice.pdf.

I’m having a trip down memory lane, having come across my grad-school notes on John Dewey’s 1920 Reconstruction in Philosophy. Yes, personal computers had been invented by then, but I was in transition from my old-style card-catalogue method. In part these caught my attention as I am preparing for my upcoming lecture on Dewey for