I’ll be speaking with the Three Kraters at their online video symposium. The symposium is “a gathering of academics, activists, authors, lawyers, professionals that drink, smoke, and discuss hard hitting topics.” Here also is their YouTube channel. From their flattering blurb about me: “Join us LIVE on Friday at 8:30 PM November 30th when we […]
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I was interviewed (remotely and in English, but with Spanish subtitles) for the Club de la Libertad‘s regional conference on economics. The 16-minute interview covers the origins of states, whether the state is a necessary evil or a necessary good, limiting the power of the state, how special-interest exception-making leads to our contemporary expansive state,
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My “What Entrepreneurs Can Teach Us All About Life,” originally published in The Wall Street Journal, has been re-published at The Atlas Society’s site. Thanks to editor Marilyn Moore for selecting it.
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During a fun (and long) question-and-answer session after a lecture at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania — some of us were still going strong after three hours — I was asked my view on the origins of the Enlightenment. The first questioner noted that Jordan Peterson had spoken at Lafayette the year before and had argued
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My six-event tour ended with the huge, sold-out MBL conference in São Paulo. Amazing energy and enthusiasm among the young Brazilians at this pregnant transition time in their history. I spoke for an hour on postmodernism and the Left, following Janaína Paschoal, leader of the impeachment proceedings against the corrupt Dilma Rousseff, and followed by
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Audio links: iTunes Stitcher YouTube Topics: The drama of The Will to Power // My earlier position // What was Nietzsche’s sister’s actual involvement? // The book’s connection to the Nazis // The themes from The Will to Power Transcription: Forthcoming Sources: Robert Matthews, “‘Madness’ of Nietzsche was cancer not syphilis,” https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/3313279/Madness-of-Nietzsche-was-cancer-not-syphilis.html. Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power, Walter Kaufmann and R.
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I’m speaking at the Movimento Brasil Livre conference in São Paulo at 4 p.m. The click-to-enlarge image of the schedule is at right. My topic is “Postmodernism’s Influence on the Contemporary Left”: What is postmodernism, and why is it so prevalent? How has it evolved and devolved over the last generation — especially among left
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Another datum on how postmodernism’s political reflexes are authoritarian — despite its high-theory-ambiguity stance — and that the theory provides rhetorical cover for politicization. Ken Wilber (via Joshua Zader): ‘”The end of any serious deconstructionist movement came with the Paul de Man debacle. On the morning of December 1, 1987, the New York Times reported
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