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Nussbaum smacks down Judith Butler
It’s a quote kind of day! I’m currently reading Nick Cohen’s What’s Left? - a no holds barred left wing critique of the relativism of many left-liberals on foreign policy. In a chapter demolishing the...
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Stephen Pinker, Evolutionary Psychology and Classical Liberalism
A book I need to get around to reading is Stephen Pinker‘s The Better Angels of Our Nature, which argues that violence is declining in Western societies, and that this is linked to the development of...
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Robert G. Ingersoll
I want to do what little I can to make my country truly free [and little it was], to broaden the intellectual horizon of our people, to destroy the prejudices born of ignorance and fear, to do away...
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Nussbaum on Prostitution
Why are there laws against prostitution? All of us, with the exception of the independently wealthy and the unemployed, take money for the use of our body. Professors, factory workers, opera singers,...
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The US Republican Party
..an insurgent outlier — ideologically extreme; contemptuous of the inherited social and economic policy regime; scornful of compromise; unpersuaded by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and...
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Rorty’s Neopragmatism
Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way. – Richard Rorty He was rightly criticised for his rhetorical flourishes against reason, and sometimes too unconditional...
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Dave McRaney On The Scientific Method
We invented the scientific method because we are naturally terrible at explaining our own experiences. Without the scientific method, there is no way to know what causes simple, everyday things like...
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Slavoj Zizek On The Ideology Of Humanizing Authors
Recall the couple of “personal” lines that usually conclude the presentation of a writer on the back cover of a book: “In his free time, X likes to play with his cat and grow tulips . . .”—^ such a...
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George Orwell – The Thinking Man’s Socialist
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...
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Academic vs Realist Public Intellectuals By Richard Posner
Excerpt taken from this review of Posner’s book Public Intellectuals: A Study of Decline: A proclivity for taking extreme positions, a taste for universals and abstraction, a desire for moral purity, a...
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