2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (188+ words) Captainese interview on the Nazis" accurate and inaccurate uses of Nietzsche'Stephen Hicks.org Friedrich Nietzsche rejected liberal individualism, capitalism, egalitarianism, and peace'and he embraced struggle, hierarchy, and the "will to power." His philosophy was appropriated by the National Socialists'in some…...

2+ mon, 4+ week ago  (196+ words) I understand the temptation to read Michel Foucault as a kind of Libertarian, with all of his attacks on oppressive powers. Or as a kind of ultra-cynical Public Choice theorist, with all his revelations of the sausage-making processes of culture…...

3+ mon, 6+ day ago  (211+ words) From a 2000 review of a biography of A. J. Ayer, describing the response to the young hotshot's 1936 Language, Truth and Logic: We remember Ayer but not the Master of Balliol or the Winchester housemaster. Deservedly so for those who play dismissal games…...

3+ mon, 6+ day ago  (186+ words) Reprising this post on Zeev Sternhell, an ally in the battle against the nihilism of the Anti-Enlightenment and its heirs. His book is written for scholars, but note this ringing conclusion: Sternhell takes Rousseau and Kant to be Enlightenment figures,…...