Nancy MacLean’s postmodern rhetorical strategy

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[Republished from The Foundation for Economic Education.] Nancy MacLean has written a postmodernist book, while her libertarian critics are writing modernist responses. The critics point out the free-wheeling, fact-free, and conspiracy-tinged narrative MacLean has constructed, and they argue that logically her account does not fit the reality of James Buchanan’s life and writings. All good […]

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Hong Kong lecture: “NEO-ENLIGHTENMENT ART AFTER POSTMODERNISM”

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Where does art go after postmodernism? My lecture in Hong Kong — in which I discuss the historical examples of Classical Athens, Renaissance Florence, the Dutch Golden Age, and nineteenth-century Paris — is at YouTube. Here also are the text in English (with images) and the condensed translation into Cantonese. Part 1: Part 2: Thanks

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Newberry reviews Feldman sculpture *The Future in Our Hands*

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Stuart Mark Feldman’s The Future in Our Hands By Michael Newberry Stuart Mark Feldman’s sculpture group, The Future in Our Hands (1992, Reservoir Park, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) is four life-size bronze statues placed around a large outdoor fountain. There are two males and two females, life-sized, each playing with a child. (To my knowledge, this is the

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My discussion with Jordan Peterson, August 17

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Mark the date: Beginning at 1 p.m. Eastern on the 17th, Professor Peterson and I will discuss university politicization, the pronoun wars, political correctness, and other manifestations of postmodernism. The discussion will be recorded and released on social media. Our initial point of contact was my book Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to

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Defeatist psychology on the Left

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Half a century ago, a despairing left intellectual wrote: “The Millenium Has Been Cancelled.” Edward Hyams was reacting to the many total failures of socialism in theory and practice, as well as to the apparent endurance of some sort of liberal capitalism.[1] In a recent review of a far-leftist book — Enzo Traverso’s Left-Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History,

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Lateral Conversations — Amarque interviews me on campus unrest and rhetoric

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German philosopher Tom Amarque interviewed me about campus unrest, language and rhetoric, and the great modern versus postmodern debate. “Stephen Hicks is a Professor of Philosophy and author of the very good book Explaining Postmodernism. Logically, we talk a lot about the history, aspects, traits and problems of postmodernism. You can find other conversations with the

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