Listen to Ayishat Akanbi
Five minutes on our culture of fear and the great importance of free speech: My subtitle: An excellent introduction to Chapter 2 of John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty.
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Seth Levine on Reading the Market’s Postmodern Mind
Financial-market analyst Seth Levine on why understanding postmodernism matters to investors: “No matter how you slice it, markets are human. This even applies to the “algos” as it’s we who write their mechanistic marching orders. Thus, understanding human behavior can be helpful in assessing and anticipating market moves. There’s no choice in the fact that
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The Great Awokening
Early America had the Great Awakening—a movement of religious zeal and guilt and damnation.Late America has the Great Awokening. (Wikipedia on the Great Awakening: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Awakening.)
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Colgan’s Pocket Guide to Postmodernism
Canadian philosopher Andrew Colgan, Ph.D., wrote this Pocket Guide to Postmodernism. I wrote an Introduction for it. Aimed at students and those looking to wrap their minds around the often-strange world of postmodernist ideas and activism, the Pocket Guide is a short, clearly written overview of the themes and arguments of my full-length book Explaining
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Toxic Waste at Love Canal—Who Really Cares About the Environment [Open College transcript]
We’re now posting serially at thinkspot the transcripts of my Open College podcasts. Here’s the eighth: OC8: Toxic Waste at Love Canal—Who Really Cares About the Environment. “Love Canal is a classic example of unfortunately bad journalism combined with bad philosophy. Almost five decades now, that combination continues to infect our public thinking and public
Faculties of (Re-)Education: Training the Teachers
At James Lindsay’s New Discourses site, check out Calum Anderson’s “A Postmodern Inquisition: Faculties of (Re)-Education?” Today, teacher training programs have embraced a secular orthodoxy in postmodernism, an ideology which exalts activism and social justice to the detriment of discourse and critical thinking. Ironically, today’s activists closely resemble Galileo’s inquisitors. While dissenting voices may not
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Marian Tupy (Cato), Jennifer Grossman (TAS), and I on human progress
I was a guest, along with the excellent Marian Tupy, on the TASA show hosted by Jennifer Grossman. We discuss the origins of Cato’s Human Progress project, how we entered the Age of Abundance, social media and the patience needed to deal with online brutalism, the many positive social indicators of modernity, whether optimism vs.
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“8 Socialists Define Socialism” [Waterfall]
This week we feature Socialists Define Socialism. Eight prominent socialists offer their definitions of their desired system: *Intellectuals: Karl Marx (Germany), Henri de Saint-Simon (France), Robert Heilbroner (USA), Michael Harrington (USA). * Politicians: Vladimir Lenin (Russia), Mao Zedong (China), Clement Atlee (Britain), Jawaharlal Nehru (India). Waterfall is a guided series of courses for everyone interested in
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