Politics

Interview: C. Bradley Thompson on Leo Strauss and the neo-conservatives

My two-part interview at CEE with Dr. C. Bradley Thompson about his forthcoming book Neoconservatism: An Obituary for an Idea, focusing on the early 20th-century political philosopher Leo Strauss’s influence on the founders of Neoconservativism. Part I Part II More interviews with CEE’s guest speakers are available here.

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“Postmodernism Unpeeled” discussion with David Thompson

David Thompson is a critic and commentator with strong interests in pop culture and postmodernism. His interview with me based on my book Explaining Postmodernism is now posted at his site. Previous interviews I’ve done on postmodernism’s themes and roots were published in Navigator and New Individualist magazines. The following scholarly reviews of the book

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Pathologies of the mixed economy (or, How we got into this frackin’ mess)

Putting into one flowchart what I have learned from Adam Smith, Ayn Rand, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, James Buchanan, and Gordon Tullock. The flowchart is in spreadsheet format: the short version and the long version in Excel 2007 or in Excel 97-2003. Update: DJ Dates has a cool, scalable Google maps version

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