Part Two: “Nietzsche: Sheep and Wolves” (6 minutes). Part One: “Nietzsche: God Is Dead” (7 minutes). Related: My book Nietzsche and the Nazis: print and e-book via Amazon, audiobook at YouTube. My article, “Egoism in Nietzsche and Rand,” contrasting the two great thinkers: print (PDF) and audiobook at YouTube.
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The influential political philosopher Leo Strauss made this strong claim: “The relation of Nietzsche to the German Nazi is comparable to the relation of Rousseau to the French Revolution.” (1941 lecture, “German Nihilism,” later published in the journal *Interpretation*, p. 372) Is he correct? My book-length analysis of the connections (and disconnections) between Nietzsche and
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I enjoyed both of this week’s episodes, one as speaker and one listening to the always-worth-listening-to John McWhorter. My earlier-this-year conversation with Konstantin and Francis:
Two Triggernometries Read More »
“God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him” — Friedrich Nietzsche wrote in 1882. To understand what the German philosopher meant, we collaborated with Professor Stephen Hicks on this Sprouts special series. YouTube. Related: My book Nietzsche and the Nazis: print and e-book via Amazon, audiobook at YouTube. My article, “Egoism in
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“The truth is that, to many people calling themselves Socialists, revolution does not mean a movement of the masses with which they hope to associate themselves; it means a set of reforms which ‘we’, the clever ones, are going to impose upon ‘them’, the Lower Orders.” The Road to Wigan Pier, 1933
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Australia’s True Arrow entrepreneur Sam McClelland did this fun video short, integrating commentary on the Covid lockdowns, the backlash protests, and an excerpt from my lectures on Plato and postmodernism. Enjoy. Related: Plato on Education, from my Philosophy of Education course online.
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I’ll be live today with Carter at the Unsafe Spaces conversation. 7 pm Central. Topics: The scary “isms”: Wokism, Postmodernism, Critical Theory conspiratorialism, and more.
Dangerous Thoughts, Unsafe Spaces — live this evening Read More »
His real name was William Joyce, and he broadcasted National Socialist propaganda to an English audience. In Berlin during in the early years of World War Two, the American correspondent William Shirer met Haw-Haw and said this of him: “I should say that he has two complexes which have landed him in his present notorious
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