Full interview in June 2021. We discussed Dr. Rectenwald’s Springtime for Snowflakes, along with my Explaining Postmodernism, and this series of topics:
00:00 Intro 00:51 Is the current contemporary left Rousseauian? 03:56 Anti-reason, anti-truth movement 06:39 Postmodernism as a crisis of faith in Marxism 12:05 Herbert Marcuse & the Frankfurt School 14:13 Where are we now? 18:05 The state of education 27:01 Does postmodernism in politics generate authoritarianism? 39:35 Why is this generation different? 41:36 The question of facticity 42:05 Journalism and media then and now 49:11 Predictions for education, politics and journalism 52:43 Higher education shake-up? 55:18 The prestige factor of social justice 58:33 Advice to younger people interested in grad school 1:02:07 Advice to intelligent people concerned about the culture