Elizabeth Warren’s Plan — We’ve Seen This Before

Consider this description of an economic system: “The economy is collectively managed by employers, workers and state officials by formal mechanisms at the national level. This non-elected form of state officializing of every interest will reduce the marginalization of singular interests. The system will recognize every divergent interest into the state organically, not meaning a

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Jordan Peterson confronts postmodernism — transcript at Real Clear Politics

Yes, and I appreciate the recommendation: You need to understand postmodernism, because that’s what you’re up against. You’re up against it far more than you know or think, and it’s a much more well-developed and pervasive, pernicious, nihilistic, intellectually attractive doctrine than has yet come to public realization.” Related: One year ago today, Professor Peterson

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Montessori and Objectivism — mini-course

As part of this full lecture on Objectivist philosophy of education and its intimate connections to Montessori’s system, here is the conclusion-drawing section for those already familiar with Montessori: For the full context — overviewing Rand’s and Montessori’s major ideas — begin here: Source: My 15-lecture video course on Philosophy of Education. The Objectivism and

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Friedrich Nietzsche in Explaining Postmodernism

Friedrich Nietzsche on why the rise of the philosophers meant the fall of man: Once reason took over, men “no longer possessed their former guides, their regulating, unconscious and infallible drives: they were reduced to thinking, inferring, reckoning, co-ordinating cause and effect, these unfortunate creatures; they were reduced to their ‘consciousness,’ their weakest and most

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Postmodernism’s Dangerous History | Stephen Hicks and Stefan Molyneux discuss

[Update: YouTube banned Stefan Molyneux’s channel in 2020.] Our full interview from June of 2018. (I was sick with a cold and hadn’t slept, but I’m happy with the content. Though maybe not, as one of the commenters says “I believe this guy is a secret Christian” while another says I’m an “uninformed, materialist, socialist

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