Philomena Cunk on the true-ish meaning of Christmas
Mockumentarian Philomena Cunk the spirit or something of the holiday season:
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The art world: Money is *not* the problem
A soul-searching article by exasperated art critic Jerry Saltz. How does the art world live with itself? Great question, and Saltz’s piece is well worth reading. (Thanks to Michael Newberry for the link.) But: The problem is not “Too much money!” in the art world. The problem is bad ideas working with bad character. Money
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Full Glenn Beck conversation published
My discussion with Glenn Beck ranged over capitalism and socialism, the ethics needed for a free society, Greek virtues, intolerance and indoctrination in education, Ayn Rand’s egoism and her view of charity, whether a meaningful life requires transcending failure, the differences between Antifa and Nazi Brownshirts, whether the National Socialist really were socialist, postmodernism, whether
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Speaking at LibertyCon, Washington, DC, January 2019
I’ll be speaking at LibertyCon during its January 17-19, 2019 run in Washington, DC, and representing The Atlas Society. I’m looking forward to hearing from the conference’s impressive roster of speakers and honored to be included. Here’s their link to my profile.
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Interview for Polish documentary on Ideology and World War 2
I’m in Gdańsk, Poland, this week for an interview at the excellent Museum of the Second World War, in connection with a documentary they are producing. The museum’s director, Dr. Karol Nawrocki, and I will discuss the following questions: 1) Why did Nazism stem from Germany and not from any other country? And why did
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Bertrand Russell’s impression of Vladimir Lenin in 1920
Two minutes: Related: “Bertrand Russell’s pacifism in the face of Nazism.” “Why did Bertrand Russell blame German fascism on German philosophy?”
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Announcement: Soho Forum debate in New York, July 2019
Mark your calendars if you will be in the Manhattan area on July 15, 2019. I’ll be debating Thaddeus Russell on this topic: Postmodernism is necessary for a politics of individual liberty. I’ll be arguing the negative. More info and early-bird tickets available at Eventbrite. Thanks very much to the Soho Forum’s Gene Epstein for
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The Slave Morality of the Left — Nietzsche’s prescience
Here is an eleven-minute audio excerpt with subtitles in Spanish — on how Friedrich Nietzsche’s analysis of ressentiment psychology now applies to segments of the postmodern left. The 1998 lecture at a TAS conference at the University of Colorado, Boulder, fed into my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault. And here is
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