Liberalism Pro and Con is a primer. I identify the most influential arguments for liberalism and present them in their strongest form, with supporting quotations from leading thinkers who make that argument. I then do the same with the most influential arguments against liberalism. Before you decide your politics, you must know these arguments. The […]
Liberalism Pro and Con — my new book published Read More »
Marx, Saint-Simon, Lenin, Harrington, Heilbroner, Attlee, Mao, Nehru. The eight socialists’ definitions that I discuss in the podcast are posted here in text form.
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In Melbourne, I met Peter Schipperheyn, creator of the magnificent Thus Spake Zarathustra. The monumental piece is at the McClelland Sculpture Park near Mornington. The tension running through Zarathustra’s bowed body as he reaches and affirms his decision is powerful. Schipperheyn decided on its name in part from reading Nietzsche’s Ecce Homo (“Why I am
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Just finished, happily, a long-form interview with the excellent John Anderson, former Deputy PM of Australia. More information forthcoming about the publication date. Check out his other conversations in the series.
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My debate with Professor John Quiggin will be livestreamed free to my followers at thinkspot and for a small fee elsewhere. So: Is Postmodernism a Right-wing Philosophy? The thinkspot page for the site is here: https://ts.today/event_signup?event=43936.
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I’m happy to announce that Faro Editorial out of São Paulo, Brazil, will be producing a Portuguese edition of the Expanded Edition of Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault. The translation is being done now and the finished product will be published in 2021. The book’s thesis: The failure of epistemology made
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Filmmaker Curt Jaimungal premieres his “Better Left Unsaid” in Toronto on March 19. Themes: the Left, racism, hate speech, and more. Here’s the two-minute trailer: Jaigmungal interviewed me in 2019 for this production, but I haven’t seen what from the interview made it into the film.
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“The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.” Source: Vincent Van Gogh, Letter to Theo van Gogh, 16 May 1882. More at my Quotations page.
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