My “Will the Alt-Right Make the Left embrace the Enlightenment?” is now republished at Britain’s Church and State site:
“Criticizing Enlightenment thought has become fashionable across the political spectrum. For the past several decades, more and more academics have called reason into question, especially the sort of rationalist worldview that emerged in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This is especially true among left-leaning, postmodern, and post-structuralist thinkers.”
But:
“one of the Alt-Right’s primary tactics [is] its appropriation of identity politics for its own chauvinist brand of white identity politics attests to this strategy’s success.”
Read more here.
[Related: “Is Religion Worth Arguing About?” and my other articles at CHURCH and STATE.]
The Alt-Right is alright. At least, it’s as good or no worse than the left or antifa. The Alt-Right is fully on a par with the rest of the cultural garbage out there. Why should rational people discriminate among all that garbage out there?
I will freely admit that most of these debates are beyond me in some respects. However, the notion that Harrison Fluss is going to embrace the enlightenment is nuts. See “Lying About Jordan Peterson” by Robert Mariani. Quote from Robert Mariani.
“Platitudes like “Enlightenment values are worth preserving” and “science is true even if when produces discomforting results” now qualify as bomb-throwing.”