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: A second criticism, initially formulated by Michel Foucault in his 1979 lectures at the College de France, is that modern capitalist society and “disciplinary techniques” are completely bound with each other. […]
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The thesis of my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault: More information also at my: Explaining Postmodernism page. Credit: Matheus Pacini made this graphic meme. Here’s his group’s Facebook page.
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My video meditation on Albert Camus’s “The Myth of Sisyphus” below or at YouTube:
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An audiobook version of my “Egoism in Nietzsche and Rand” is below or at YouTube: Text version published in The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies 10:2, Spring 2009, 249-291. Also here as PDF. Also relevant: My chart (with sources) comparing Nietzsche’s and Rand’s positions on 96 philosophical issues.
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The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism was edited by the late Ronald Hamowy and published by Cato in 2008. It’s now online in a fully searchable format. I wrote the entry on “Enlightenment,” which draws on some material from Chapter One of Explaining Postmodernism.
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A new generation of sex robots is upon us, and the joking has begun. I don’t need one, says a wife, since my husband is already robotic in bed. Ha ha. Sure, a husband replies, but you should see my wife in inaction. (No thanks, I think to myself.) The next generation of sex robots promises
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Is anything more fun to think about than sex and man/woman commonalities and differences? So amidst all the recent heated and sometimes nasty discussions of those issues, I propose a new rule: Whoever first turns a fun topic into an unfun discussion loses the debate.
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If you’re bored for five minutes, that happens. If you’re bored for an hour, that’s a choice. If you’re bored for a month, you’re a boring person. (And I like Dorothy Parker on this: “The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.”)