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Open Letter to Professor C. Christine Fair, Georgetown University
Re: “Look at this chorus of entitled white men justifying a serial rapist’s arrogated entitlement. All of them deserve miserable deaths while feminists laugh as they take their last gasps. Bonus: we castrate their corpses and feed them to swine? … Continue reading
The Fate of Civilizations
Should a philosopher be interested in the trajectory of civilizations, from their rise to dominance in a region, and then the reasons why a civilization seems to lose its collective capacity and go into decline? Most professional philosophers are not, … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Media, Philosophy, Where is Civilization Going?, Where Is Philosophy Going?
Tagged Age of Decadence, Anita Hill Clarence Thomas, Brett Kavanaugh, Christine Blasey Ford, cycles of civilizations, higher education, John Bagot Glubb, love of money, sexual harassment, sexual misconduct, Supreme Court, The Fate of Empires, What Should Philosophy Do?
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Why Is Philosophy Important? An Expanded Comment
Daily Nous, the philosophy blog, posted a recent query raising this question in response to an undergraduate who had fallen in love with the subject. Presumably she’d gotten some flak from friends or maybe family. The blog’s editor, Justin Weinberg … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Language, Philosophy, Where is Civilization Going?, Where Is Philosophy Going?
Tagged A Free Man's Worship, academic philosophy, analytic tradition strengths and weaknesses, daily nous, George Carlin, Justin Weinberg, linguistic analysis, philosophy critical thinking, philosophy worldview, The Responsibility of Intellectuals, why is philosophy important, Wittgenstein, worldviews
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Identity Politics Has Nearly Destroyed the Humanities; Now It Is Threatening the Hard Sciences
This article by Heather MacDonald is a must-read! If you thought you could escape identity politics by going into the sciences, or possibly even into engineering, think again. The article’s opening paragraphs spell out clearly what is happening in scientific … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Culture, Higher Education Generally, Where is Civilization Going?
Tagged affirmative action, Bret Weinstein, C. Wright Mills, Evergreen State, Griggs Supreme Court, Heather MacDonald, Identity Politics, National Association of Scholars, National Science Foundation, original civil rights vision, Patreon, power elite, STEM education, truth-telling, white male cultural constructs, white male social construct
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Is Higher Education Undergoing a Long-Term Structural Collapse?
Is higher education in the U.S., and almost surely in the West generally, undergoing a long-term structural collapse? The question sounds histrionic, perhaps even hysterical and would be treated as such in many (most?) mainstream academic circles. But if we … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Higher Education Generally, Political Economy, Where is Civilization Going?
Tagged #MeToo feminism, Adjunct faculty, Black Lives Matter, black professors, corporatization, Frankfurt School, Griggs decision, Herbert Marcuse, higher education collapse, higher education decline, Kevin Carey, neoconservatism, Neoliberalism, neoliberalism neoconservatism, part-time faculty, political correctness, Powell Memo, Powell Memorandum, precarity, racial discrimination, student loan debt, student loan debt crisis, Udemy.com, why teachers leave, YouTube
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Why Marx Now? Part 2
[Author’s Note: I received complaints that Part 1 was too long. “TLDR,” said one person: Too Long Didn’t Read. Part of me is saddened by this. I wonder if essayists such as Albert Jay Nock, or James T. Farrell, or … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Worldview, Philosophy, Political Economy, Where is Civilization Going?
Tagged abolish the state, capitalism inequality, capitalism irrational, capitalism vs. socialism, Communist Manifesto, crony capitalism, EU problems, global capitalism, globalism, globalization problems, Karl Marx, Karl Marx Yanis Varoufakis, Libertarian economics, Marx new interest, Marx political economy, Marx Varoufakis, Marxism and Christianity, Marxism today, Neoliberalism, planned obsolescence, power elite, Syriza Party, technofeudalism, technological unemployment, Varoufakis economist, Yanis Varoufakis
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Why Marx Now? Part 1
Recent years have seen a surge of renewed interest in Karl Marx’s political-economic thought. For those not living in a cave somewhere, this has been hard to miss. This interest is not coming primarily from the “cultural Marxists” of academic … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophy, Political Economy, Where is Civilization Going?
Tagged capitalism irrational, Christianity and Marxism, Communist Manifesto, Cultural Marxism, economic Marxism, Identity Politics, inequality, Karl Marx, Marx and Engels, Marx at 200, Marxism, Marxism today, power elite, Thomas Piketty
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