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Our topic was the many intellectuals who supported National Socialism — Heidegger, Schmitt, Dietrich — along with the other psychological and cultural factors that explained the enormous popularity and enthusiasm for the Nazis in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Follow-up question: What are the parallels to today’s facist/antifa activists? Our first conversation, on postmodernism

Read this passage from a memoir of being young in 1920s Germany, and compare the 2020s: “A generation of young Germans,” [Sebastian] Haffner writes, “had become accustomed to having the entire content of their lives delivered gratis, so to speak, by the public sphere.” The stability that followed Gustav Stresemann’s becoming chancellor in 1923 marked

Chapters Four (The Climate of Collectivism), Five (The Crisis of Socialism), and Six (Postmodern Strategies) narrated by the author, Stephen R. C. Hicks. Previously posted: Chapters One (What Postmodernism Is) Two (The Counter-Enlightenment Attack on Reason), and Three (The Twentieth-Century Collapse of Reason), are here. With timestamps for each section. CHAPTER FOUR: The Climate of

I’ll be speaking again with the London-England-based “Triggernometry” team, Francis Foster and Konstantin Kisin. The live interview is scheduled for 5 p.m. GMT (11 a.m. Central) on November 25 and will be published thereafter on social media. Our topics will be the many intellectuals with supported National Socialism — Heidegger, Schmitt, Dietrich — along with

Part I of “From Modern to Postmodern Art and Beyond” focused on Modernism’s brutalism, reductionism, and conceptualism — and philosophy’s contributions from Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud. “By the beginning of the twentieth century, the nineteenth-century intellectual world’s sense of disquiet had become a full-blown anxiety. The artists responded, exploring in their works the implications of

Pleased with this result: The audiobook of Nietzsche and the Nazis crossed the two million mark. Nietzsche and the Nazis started as a documentary project that was picked up by Netflix for a few years. I then turned the script into a book, which was first published in English followed by several foreign-language translations and