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New: Brazilian Portuguese translation of Explaining Postmodernism

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I’m happy that Faro Editorial, out of Brazil has published Guerra cultural: Como o pós-modernismo criou uma narrativa de desconstrução do ocidente. (Culture War: How Postmodernism Created a Narrative of Deconstruction of the West). It’s a new translation of my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault, the thesis of which is: The […]

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Bootleg version of Nietzsche and the Nazis

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Here’s a bootleg version of my Nietzsche and the Nazis documentary, which was first available at Netflix and on DVD. The book version came along a couple of years later. Official audiobook version is available here. The print edition is available here.

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Murray Rothbard, “Free Market” [Atlas Intellectuals]

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This week in the Atlas Intellectuals course on Capitalism we will see Murray Rothbard´s Free Market In this essay, selected for The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics, Rothbard outlines the key moral and economic features of free markets. The full course: https://www.atlassociety.org/course/capitalism. Other Atlas Intellectuals courses on Socialism, Objectivity, Money, Robotics, and more: https://www.atlassociety.org/atlas-university/atlas-intellectuals

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On being wounded by racist talk

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For someone’s opinion to hurt, you first have to value their opinion. Think of it this way: If you think someone is a moron, then you don’t value their opinion and their moronic views don’t hurt you. And racism is moronic. So why be hurt by a racist’s insults? If a baboon could talk and

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Resentment psychology and “Madame Guillotine”

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Via Roderick Long, here are the opening lines from “Madame Guillotine” (from the Scarlet Pimpernel musical): I know the gutter, and I know the stink of the street;kicked like a dog, I have spat out the bile of defeat.All you beauties who towered above me,you who gave me the smack of your rod –now I

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Posner’s excellent CRT review

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On the intellectual weakness but institutional destructiveness of Critical Race Theory: Judge Richard Posner wrote this strong review (PDF) of two law professors’ Beyond All Reason. Farber and Sherry’s is one of four books that I recommend frequently for those studying the postmodern challenge in specific intellectual areas: * Literature: John Ellis, Literature Lost: Social

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Jordan B. Peterson discussion [Open College transcript]

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We’re posting serially the transcripts of my Open College podcasts. Here’s the 18th. My second discussion with Professor Peterson ranges over postmodernism, language, power, and what makes for a genuine education. Open College podcast published a 40-minute audio excerpt of the discussion; the full video discussion is available at Dr. Peterson’s site. Here is a

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Panel: Critical Race Theory quotes, and Pipeline Threats and Politics

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Here’s a link to my panel discussion on Critical Race Theory and Pipeline Cyber-Threats and Politics. Vickie Oddino hosted me and economist Richard Salsman. I contrast individualist anti-racism to the new Postmodern- and Critical-Theory-derived strategies. Along the way I discuss these three revealing descriptions of (1) postmodern anti-individualism, (2) the structural part of “structural racism”,

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