“The Dim Ruins of the Enlightenment” [Open College series]

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Episode 4 in my Open College with Dr. Stephen Hicks podcast series. Audio links:  iTunes Stitcher YouTube Topics: Our contemporary pessimists and cynics // Gray, Rorty, and Foucault // The Enlightenment and its promises // How to assess the Enlightenment era // Data // Postmodernism // Real concerns and trade-offs versus pessimism Transcription: Forthcoming Sources: Michel […]

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Male and female incarceration rates in the USA

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The chart indicates that about fourteen adult males are incarcerated for every adult female who is. Also, on lengths of sentences: “males received 12 percent longer prison terms than females after ‘controlling for the offense level, criminal history, district, and offense type.’” Follow-up questions: 1. Do males collectively commit 14 times the number of crimes

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On Glenn Beck’s show — Friday, November 9

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I’ll be in their Dallas studio to discuss postmodernism and its evolving variants. My understanding is that the discussion will be live at 2:45 p.m. CT but also recorded for later YouTube release. Related: Previous episodes of Beck’s podcast. The new audiobook of my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault: Audible, iTunes. More

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Conservatives Are *Not* Free-market Capitalists [Open College series]

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The third episode in my Open College with Dr. Stephen Hicks podcast series. Audio links: iTunes. Soundcloud. Stitcher. YouTube. Topics and times: Conceptual clarification: “conservative,” “revolutionary,” “liberal” // Donald Trump versus Charles Koch // Robert Bork, Irving Kristol, Russell Kirk, Pat Buchanan, and Alexander Solzhenitsyn // Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek, and Ayn Rand // Why

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*Explaining Postmodernism* audiobook now available

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The audiobook of the Expanded Edition of my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault is now available at Audible and iTunes: Audible iTunes The narrator is Scott R. Smith. Listening length is 7 hours and 23 minutes. The expanded edition includes my Free Speech and Postmodernism and From Modern to Postmodern Art: Why Art Became Ugly essays. Images

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