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.
Talking about sex and gender Read More »
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.”)
My lecture on “Progress and Betrayal — Latin American Intellectuals and the Difference between North and Latin American Economies” is up at YouTube: Thanks again to Federico Fernandez and the Bases Foundation for making this 2016 event possible.
“Progress and Betrayal” lecture, Rosario, Argentina Read More »
The two professors discuss Postmodernism in depth.
Jordan Peterson and Stephen Hicks discuss Postmodernism Read More »
A new printing of the expanded edition was published this month in a snazzy hardcover. Its theme: “The failure of epistemology made postmodernism possible. The failure of socialism made postmodernism necessary.” This is the fifteenth printing since its first publication in 2004. Samples from the scholarly reviewers of the first edition: “By the end of Explaining
New printing of *Explaining Postmodernism* — the fifteenth Read More »
Clashing protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia — far right, far left, and others. Street violence and declarations of emergency by the governing officials. How did we get to this? First, how postmodernism evolved through three phases from high theory to coercive activism: Second, other anti-liberal and anti-rational movements learn and adopt the same strategies to their
Charlottesville, Third- and Fourth-wave Postmodernism Read More »
[Republished from The Foundation for Economic Education.] Nancy MacLean has written a postmodernist book, while her libertarian critics are writing modernist responses. The critics point out the free-wheeling, fact-free, and conspiracy-tinged narrative MacLean has constructed, and they argue that logically her account does not fit the reality of James Buchanan’s life and writings. All good
Nancy MacLean’s postmodern rhetorical strategy Read More »
Eleven minutes excerpted from a 1998 lecture — below or at YouTube.
Nietzsche Perfectly Forecasts the Postmodernist Left Read More »