Philosophy

Is Rousseau now more important than Marx? (With O’Fallon and Lindsay)

James Lindsay and I focus on the influential Jean-Jacques Rousseau, whose anti-Enlightenment ideology is very much in fashion again after the disasters of Marxist socialism in the 20th century. Bad ideas don’t go away after failure — they get repackaged and re-introduced in other guises. Discussion hosted by Michael O’Fallon. From the description: When you

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Thomas Kuhn, *The Structure of Scientific Revolutions* [Objectivity course]

In this unit of the Objectivity course we feature Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, in which he questions whether science is or can be an objective process based upon observational facts that makes progress toward truth. Thomas Kuhn was a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, a

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The first Fascist on the Left, socialism, and authoritarianism

The cartoon is politically correct. Benito Mussolini on his political roots: “It was inevitable that I should become a Socialist ultra, a Blanquist, indeed a communist. I carried about a medallion with Marx’s head on it in my pocket.” (Source: 1932 interview with biographer Emil Ludwig.) And then Mussolini’s predictions for the future: “it may

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¿Por Qué Los Posmodernos Entrenan—No Educan—Activistas?

¿Por Qué Los Posmodernos Entrenan—No Educan—Activistas? Por Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D. He aquí por qué adoctrinar a los niños tiene mucho sentido para los posmodernistas. Traducido al Español por Fermin Elizalde, 2019. [PDF] Para más artículos en español sobre Educación y Filosofía: https://www.stephenhicks.org/espanol/ English, original article: “Why Postmoderns Train—Not Educate—Activists,” James G. Martin Center

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