David Weinberger beats up on Keynes’s economics here: “despite numerous experiments since the 1930s, never has Keynesian policy precipitated a peacetime economic recovery.” And I beat up on Keynes’s politics here: “Keynes was not merely recommending a few surgical interventions to smooth out cycles or to jump-start moribund economies. Keynes’s economics are part of a […]
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Our discussion is embedded below or at YouTube. Topics discussed: 1:00: The various uses of “postmodern” 3:30: The epistemology of reason in early modern philosophy 4:30: Pomo as a skepticism about reason by mid-1900s 5:00: Individualism in early modern philosophy 7:00: Pomo as a reaction to individualism 7:30: Social-psychological-linguistic determinisms of mid-1900s 10:10: Perception and
Tyler Ashby discussion: Pomo, Perception, and Reason Read More »
My review of Nicholas Capaldi & Gordon Lloyd’s Liberty and Equality in Political Economy: From Locke versus Rousseau to the Present is now published at the Library of Law and Liberty site.
Review of Capaldi and Lloyd on Locke versus Rousseau Read More »
Grégoire Canlorbe is a French intellectual entrepreneur. He currently resides in Paris. He interviewed me for The Foundation for Economic Education. Excerpt below: Grégoire Canlorbe: According to me, the underlying force that makes Ayn Rand’s heroes so addictive is power. They are in the railroad industry, a 130-year-old business built by the ingenuity and hard work
Was Ayn Rand an intellectual Stalin? Read More »
My video meditation on Jean-Paul Sartre’s famous phrase from his “Existentialism is a Humanism,” below or at YouTube:
Sartre on “Existence precedes essence” Read More »
Vincent Debierre of Liberté Académique and I spoke about Pomo in America. Debierre’s introduction is in French, and the interview is conducted in English. Here it is below, at Soundcloud, or at YouTube.
Debierre interview: The culture wars and postmodernism in America Read More »
Thinking about what, if I were on the left, I’d do with this trio of beliefs: 1. I know Trump is now in charge of the government. 2. And I believe Trump is basically Hitler. 3. Yet I favor gun control — I want the government to take everyone’s guns away. Something’s gotta give. But
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Do you see a pattern? I don’t. Nine countries selected semi-randomly: Then organized by homicide rate: Then organized by gun ownership rate: Let’s think sadly about those who were injured and lost their lives. Let’s think angrily about the evil man who killed them. And then let’s also think sophisticatedly about the multiple influences and
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