Philosophy

Capitalism: All humans have the rights to life, liberty, and property. Imperialism: We have the right to control you, take your stuff, and kill you if you resist.  Imperialism existed for millennia before the revolutionary modern world of the last few centuries. During the modern era, both capitalism’s liberalism and imperialism’s authoritarianism existed within modernizing […]

What Jean-Paul Sartre said about the anti-Semites of his day applies perfectly to the language-and-emotion manipulating so-called “anti-racists” of our day: “Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who

I’m pleased that the book is still in print after so many years, and especially pleased with this new paperback printing. Explaining Postmodernism is a philosophical intellectual history of the roots of postmodernism. Its one-sentence thesis is: The failure of epistemology made postmodernism possible; the failure of socialism made postmodernism necessary. Here are links to

From May 8-13, I will be in lovely Stockholm for a series of interviews and closed events. All will be published afterwards, so please stay tuned for updates. Related: Descartes died in Stockholm — perhaps he should have doubted (ha ha) that the far north was good for a philosopher’s health. Though that was winter

In conjunction with his 205th, I re-post this picture of me and a diminutive Karl Marx, taken in his hometown of Trier, Germany, in 2018 on the 200th anniversary of his birth. Red was an appropriate color for this tribute sculpture given the amount of blood spilled applying his ideas. Related: Marx’s philosophy and its

1. A short follow-up on moral equivalencing. Yesterday I posted this about the killing fields in Cambodia under Marxist communism. Immediately I got huffy responses like “But what about Pinochet in Chile?!” And “Don’t forget the US also supported right-wing dictator Pinochet.” 2. Pinochet was a bad guy. No question. Yet numbers and context matter.